Test 2 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

Riding no-hands down a busy road is fine if you're good, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Riding, you · What happens: ride down, be, innit · To what, where: hands

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Riding a bike: why it stays up» of the physics 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	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fine	csubj
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 hands	det
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 no	punct
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Riding	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	1 Riding	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 good	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 good	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fine	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride down	gerund		no hands		tree rules
2	is	present	Riding		fine property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		good property	tree rules
4	innit	infinitive				tree rules

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

Yes, it is safer than holding on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 safer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safer	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	cop
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 holding	mark
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 safer	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 holding	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						safe property	tree rules
2	hold on	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, never do it in traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 traffic	case
7	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here	it		traffic			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Only on rainy days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 days	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, if you are fast enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 fast	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fast	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fast	cop
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					enough, fast property	tree rules

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