Test 2 · Bicycles and other wheels

«why do cyclists lean? motorbikes too, they're showing off» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cyclists · What happens: lean, motorbike, show off, be

This is test 2 of lesson 25 «Bicycles and other wheels» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 lean	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lean	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lean	aux
4	cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lean	nsubj
5	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 motorbikes	punct
7	motorbikes	motorbike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lean	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 motorbikes	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 showing	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 showing	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 showing	aux
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lean	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 showing	compound:prt
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 lean	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lean	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lean in a quote	present · do-support	cyclists		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	motorbike in a quote	present	cyclists not said here		vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	show off in a quote	present · progressive	cyclists = cyclist		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present		right property	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

They lean to keep the rain off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lean	nsubj
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lean	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	They						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep off	to-infinitive	They not said here	the rain					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it's only for showing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 showing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 showing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 showing	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 showing	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 showing	mark
7	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 showing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	present · progressive	it						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leaning into the bend is how a two-wheeler turns without falling over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 turns	csubj
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 bend	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bend	det
4	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaning	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turns	cop
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 turns	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wheeler	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wheeler	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 two	punct
10	wheeler	wheeler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turns	nsubj
11	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 falling	mark
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 turns	advcl
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund		the bend		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a two wheeler		turn property	tree rules
3	fall over	gerund	a two wheeler not said here		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They lean to see the road better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lean	nsubj
2	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lean	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 lean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	They					well property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	They not said here	the road					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus

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