Test 4 · Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights

What would happen if a car drove in the bus lane past the camera?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car · What happens: happen, drive · To what, where: bus lane

This is test 4 of lesson 20 «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» of the technology 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	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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 drove	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drove	nsubj
7	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 lane	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lane	det
10	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lane	compound
11	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drove	obl
12	past	past	ADP	_	14 camera	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 camera	det
14	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drove	obl
15	?	?	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
2	drive a condition, not said to happen	past	a car			the bus lane		past the camera	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past camera=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

The camera would record it and the driver could be fined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 record	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 record	aux
4	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 record	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fined	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 driver	det
8	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fined	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fined	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 fined	aux:pass
11	fined	fine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 record	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	would	the camera	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fine	could · passive		the driver					vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Nothing, cameras are for show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cameras	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 show	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 show	case
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cameras					for show	tree rules

Option 3

The camera would stop the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 camera	det
2	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the camera	the car					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality

Option 4

The bus would push it out of the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bus	det
2	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 lane	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lane	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lane	det
9	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	would	the bus	it		the lane			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out lane=Trajectory

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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