Test 11 · ★★ · Road and railway safety
Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball. How many are still on the far pavement?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Five friends, two, many · What happens: cross, run back, fetch, be · To what, where: crossing, ball, far pavement
This is test 11 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 friends | nummod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 crossing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crossing | det |
| 6 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 run | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 run | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 two | nmod |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cross | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fetch | mark |
| 15 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 run | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | present | Five friends | the crossing | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run back | present | two of friends | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | two of friends not said here | a ball | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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: How many are still on the far pavement?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pavement | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pavement | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 pavement | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pavement | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pavement | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pavement | amod |
| 8 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 pavement | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many | the far pavement | still | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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