Test 9 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E
Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Crowd, you · What happens: gather, do · To what, where: ambulance
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» of the medicine 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: Crowd gathers around an ambulance in the street.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathers | nsubj |
| 2 | gathers | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 ambulance | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ambulance | det |
| 5 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathers | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathers | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present | Crowd | a ambulance | in the street | vn herd-47.5.2 «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.
Sentence 2: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ask the paramedics questions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 questions | det |
| 3 | paramedics | paramedics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 questions | compound |
| 4 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the paramedics questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Move aside and let them work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 1 Move | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 let | cc |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Move | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | imperative | you not said here | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | infinitive | them = they not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Go closer to film it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Go | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 film | mark |
| 4 | film | film | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 closer | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 film | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | close property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | film | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Block the road to help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Block | block | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Block | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Block | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | imperative | you not said here | the road | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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