Test 17 · ★★ · Riding a bike or a scooter safely

heard a lad in our town got doored on his bike by a parked car and flew like ten metres!!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hear, door, park, fly · To what, where: lad, town, bike · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 doored	mark
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 town	nmod:poss
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doored	nsubj:pass
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doored	aux:pass
8	doored	door	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 heard	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bike	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bike	nmod:poss
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doored	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 car	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 car	det
14	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 car	amod
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doored	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 metres	case
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 metres	nummod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	obl
21	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	1 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a lad			tree rules
2	door	past · passive	our town	his bike	by a parked car	tree rules
3	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past			like ten metres	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It proves parked cars are only dangerous at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 dangerous	advmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	parked cars	night	dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

The real lesson is that bikes should ride on the pavement always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lesson	amod
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ride	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ride	mark
6	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ride	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ride	aux
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 pavement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pavement	det
11	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	obl
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 ride	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should · present	the real lesson			the pavement		always, ride property	tree rules

Option 3

Every number in it must be correct because it was so exact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 correct	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 number	nmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 correct	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 correct	cop
7	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 exact	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exact	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exact	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 exact	advmod
12	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 correct	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	every number in it					correct property	tree rules
2	is	past	number					exact property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The real lesson is to ride clear of parked car doors; «ten metres» is likely exaggerated

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lesson	amod
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ride	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ride	mark
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ride	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 doors	case
9	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 doors	amod
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doors	compound
11	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clear	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 exaggerated	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 metres	punct
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 exaggerated	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 metres	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 exaggerated	aux:pass
18	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 exaggerated	advmod
19	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ride	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the real lesson		clear, ride property	tree rules
2	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	exaggerate	present · passive	the real lesson not said here	ten metres	likely property	tree rules

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