Test 7 · Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights

oi, how come the bus beeps when the doors shut?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, bus, doors · What happens: come, beep, shut

This is test 7 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beeps	nsubj
7	beeps	beep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 shut	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doors	det
10	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shut	nsubj
11	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 beeps	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	come	infinitive	oi	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beep	present	the bus	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shut	participle	the doors	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

To say the bell is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	present · passive		the bell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To warn people the doors are closing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warn	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 closing	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 closing	aux
7	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 warn	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			people				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	close	present · progressive	the doors						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Because the driver is cross with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 cross	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 driver	det
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	cop
5	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the driver					with you; cross property	tree rules

Option 4

To tell the bus to go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	xcomp
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the bus					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bus=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bus not said here					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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