Test 8 · ★★ · Riding a bike or a scooter safely

Your friend rides with music in both ears. What would you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: ride, tell · To what, where: ears, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your friend rides with music in both ears.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	nsubj
3	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 music	case
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ears	det
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rides	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Your friend			both ears		with music	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What would you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	you		friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Only one ear is a problem; with the other one free he can hear

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ear	nummod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 problem	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 problem	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 problem	det
6	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 problem	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 problem	nmod
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hear	aux
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 problem	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one ear	a problem				with the other one	tree rules
2	hear	can	he						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Music makes him pedal better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	pedal	pedal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pedal	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Music	him = he					tree rules
2	pedal	infinitive	him = he not said here					well property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Music makes bikes faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Music	bikes				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bike=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He cannot hear a car coming behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hear	xcomp
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	He	a car					tree rules
2	come	gerund	a car not said here					behind him = he	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location

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