Test 5 · ★★ · Road and railway safety

What would happen if a car came round the corner while you stepped out between two parked vans?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, you · What happens: happen, come, step out, park · To what, where: corner, two parked vans

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 corner	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corner	det
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 stepped	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stepped	nsubj
13	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 stepped	compound:prt
15	between	between	ADP	_	18 vans	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vans	nummod
17	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 vans	amod
18	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stepped	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	a car	the corner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location
3	step out	past	you	two parked vans	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between van=Trajectory
4	park	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, cars never drive near parked vans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drive	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 drive	advmod
5	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	near	near	ADV	_	7 parked	advmod
7	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 vans	amod
8	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drive	present	cars	parked vans					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme van=Trajectory
2	park	participle						near property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The car would stop instantly, cars always can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cars	punct
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	obl
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 can	advmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the car	cars				instantly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The driver might not see you in time to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	might	the driver	you			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	stop	to-infinitive	the driver not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

The driver would see you through the vans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 vans	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vans	det
8	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	the driver	you		the vans			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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