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Test 3 · Bicycles and other wheels

It's raining and Sam rides down a hill. What is the safe way to stop?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, Sam, safe way · What happens: rain, ride down, be, stop · To what, where: hill

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: It's raining and Sam rides down a hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rides	cc
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rides	nsubj
6	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	conj
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raining	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	ride down	present	Sam	a hill					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme

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 is the safe way to stop?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the safe way						tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	the safe way not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Use only his feet on the ground, dragging his shoes along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 feet	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dragging	punct
9	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Use	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dragging	obj
12	along	along	ADV	_	9 dragging	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	his feet		the ground			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	drag	gerund	you not said here	his shoes				along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brake early with both brakes, the front gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brake	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Brake	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 brakes	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 brakes	det
5	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Brake	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 front	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 front	det
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brakes	nmod
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Brake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here					with both brakes the front; early, gently property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with brake=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Grab only the front brake hard at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 brake	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brake	det
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brake	amod
5	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grab	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Grab	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	the front brake		the bottom		hard property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Theme

Option 4

Brake hard at the last second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brake	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Brake	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 second	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 second	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 second	amod
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here				second	hard property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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