Test 6 · Bike helmets and roads
«crap, he beeped twice and she didn't even turn round». What took away Lily's warning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap, she, Lily · What happens: beep, not turn round, take away, warn · To what, where: warning
This is test 6 of lesson 72 «Bike helmets and roads» 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: «crap, he beeped twice and she didn't even turn round».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 crap | punct |
| 2 | crap | crap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beeped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 crap | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beeped | nsubj |
| 5 | beeped | beep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 beeped | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turn | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 turn | advmod |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 turn | advmod |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beeped | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 turn | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beeped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beep in a quote | past | crap | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not turn round in a quote | past · do-support | she | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 took away Lily's warning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lily | case |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | Lily's warning | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | |||||
| 2 | warn | Lily | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The van's quiet engine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 van | det |
| 2 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engine | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 van | case |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 engine | amod |
| 5 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Loud music in both ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ears | det |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 music | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The helmet covering her ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 helmet | det |
| 2 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 helmet | acl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covering | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | the helmet not said here | her ears | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination |
Option 4
A sore neck from riding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 neck | det |
| 2 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 neck | amod |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 riding | case |
| 5 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neck | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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