Test 1 · ★★ · Road and railway safety

«stop moaning, i always cross behind the bus as soon as it stops, it's quicker» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, i, bus · What happens: stop, moan, cross, be · To what, where: bus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Road and railway safety» 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	_	2 stop	punct
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cross	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 cross	advmod
7	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	parataxis
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 bus	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bus	det
10	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cross	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 quicker	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stops	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stops	nsubj
15	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 quicker	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stops	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quicker	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 quicker	cop
19	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 cross	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 quicker	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 quicker	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	moan in a quote	gerund	you not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cross in a quote	present	i	the bus	always property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop in a quote	present	bus			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	present	bus		quick, soon property	tree rules
6	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 · ✓ the right answer

Wait until the bus has gone and the road is clear to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 clear	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clear	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clear	cop
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 clear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present · perfect	the bus		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the road	clear property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the road not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Only dangerous in front of the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dangerous	advmod
2	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dangerous	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Fine, if you run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 run	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, behind the bus is the safest place, the bus blocks the cars for you

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bus	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 place	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blocks	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bus	det
12	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blocks	nsubj
13	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 place	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cars	det
15	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 blocks	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 blocks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bus			the Fine safest place			tree rules
2	block	present	the bus	the cars				for you	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer car=Theme

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