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Test 9 · Bike helmets and roads

Sipho: «Lekker, no stress, I'll just drag my takkies» downhill to a junction. What would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: drag, happen · To what, where: takkies, junction

This is test 9 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: Sipho: «Lekker, no stress, I'll just drag my takkies» downhill to a junction.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sipho	Sipho	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drag	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Lekker	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Lekker	punct
4	Lekker	Lekker	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sipho	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stress	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stress	det
7	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Lekker	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sipho	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 drag	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 drag	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 drag	advmod
12	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 takkies	nmod:poss
14	takkies	takky	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drag	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 takkies	punct
16	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	12 drag	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 junction	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 junction	det
19	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drag	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 drag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag in a quote	future	I	my takkies		a junction		Sipho vocative; downhill property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent takky=Theme to junction=Destination

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 happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The hill would slow him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
4	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 slow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	would	the hill	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His shoes would slide and he couldn't stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slide	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slide	aux
4	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	would	His shoes						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not stop	could	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Junctions always have soft walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Junctions	junction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walls	amod
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Junctions	soft walls				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

Option 4

His shoes would stop him easily, like brakes do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His shoes	him = he				easily property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
2	do	present	brakes						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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