Test 3 · ★★ · Road and railway safety

You're late for school and the bus is pulling away from the stop. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, bus · What happens: be, pull away · To what, where: stop

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: You're late for school and the bus is pulling away from the stop.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulling	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bus	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulling	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pulling	aux
10	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 late	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 pulling	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 stop	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stop	det
14	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulling	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					for school; late property	tree rules
2	pull away	present · progressive	the bus			the stop		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from stop=Source

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Let it go and wait for the next; never run after a moving bus

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 next	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 next	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wait	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 run	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 run	advmod
11	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 bus	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bus	det
14	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 bus	amod
15	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it			tree rules
2	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	infinitive				for the next	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not run	infinitive	you not said here		after a moving bus		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Run and bang on the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bang	cc
3	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bang	infinitive	you not said here			the door			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location

Option 3

Grab the back and hang on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grab	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hang	cc
5	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 hang	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	the back					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	hang on	infinitive	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Run in front of it so the driver has to stop and let you on

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 front	nmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 driver	det
8	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 has	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here		front of front	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
2	have	present	the driver			tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive	the driver not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	let on	infinitive	you not said here	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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