Test 7 · Escalators and lifts

«Gran's stair lift is like a ride, can I go up and down on it?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stair lift, I, Gran · What happens: be, go up, lift · To what, where: lift

This is test 7 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: «Gran's stair lift is like a ride, can I go up and down on it?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lift	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gran	case
4	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lift	compound
5	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ride	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 ride	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ride	det
9	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ride	parataxis
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 down	cc
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 up	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Gran's stair lift		like a ride	tree rules
2	go up in a quote	can	I	lift		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lift in a quote		Gran			nom lift «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, it's a fun ride if you hold on tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ride	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ride	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ride	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ride	det
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ride	amod
7	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 hold	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hold	nsubj
10	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ride	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 hold	compound:prt
12	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fun ride					tree rules
2	hold on a condition, not said to happen	present	you					tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, it is not a toy; it is for Gran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 toy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 toy	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 toy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toy	det
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Gran	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Gran	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Gran	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 Gran	case
12	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 toy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	it	a toy and Gran					tree rules
2	is	present	it					for Gran	tree rules

Option 3

Only if you go up it sitting backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	obl
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 go	xcomp
8	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	present	you	it					tree rules
2	sit	gerund	you not said here					backwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only if the power is switched off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 switched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 switched	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 switched	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 switched	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 power	det
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 switched	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 switched	aux:pass
9	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 switched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	present · passive		the power					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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