Test 5 · Escalators and lifts

«doors closing!! I'll just stick my foot in, they always open» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doors, I, best advice · What happens: close, stick in, be · To what, where: foot

This is test 5 of lesson 26 «Escalators and lifts» 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: «doors closing!!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 closing	punct
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closing	nsubj
3	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 closing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close in a quote	gerund	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.

Sentence 2: I'll just stick my foot in, they always open» What is the best advice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stick	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stick	advmod
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	4 stick	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 open	advmod
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 open	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 advice	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 advice	amod
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick in	future	I	my foot					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Good idea, the sensor never fails, not even once in a hundred years

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fails	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sensor	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sensor	det
5	sensor	sensor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fails	obl
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fails	advmod
7	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 once	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 once	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 once	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 fails	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 years	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fails	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fail	present	Good idea	the sensor			year	once property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't rely on the sensor; wait for the next lift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rely	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 rely	advmod
3	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sensor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sensor	det
6	sensor	sensor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
8	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 rely	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 lift	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lift	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lift	amod
12	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rely	imperative · do-support	you not said here					on the sensor	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on sensor=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here					for the next lift	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Use your hand, it's safer than a foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 safer	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 safer	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safer	cop
7	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Use	parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 foot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 foot	det
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	your hand					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	is	present						than a foot; safe property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Kick the doors, they open faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doors	det
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kick	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 open	nsubj
6	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kick	parataxis
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Kick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	the doors				fast property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	open	present	doors = door						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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