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Test 7 · ★★ · Road and railway safety

In a cartoon, a boy plays football on the driveway and the car backs out and stops just in time because the driver saw him. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, car, driver · What happens: play, back out, stop, see, be · To what, where: football, cartoon, boy

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon, a boy plays football on the driveway and the car backs out and stops just in time because the driver saw him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	nsubj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 driveway	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 driveway	det
11	driveway	driveway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 backs	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 car	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 backs	nsubj
15	backs	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plays	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 backs	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stops	cc
18	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 backs	conj
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stops	obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 saw	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 driver	det
24	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stops	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	a boy	football		a cartoon		on the driveway	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme
2	back out	present	the car						vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	the car not said here				time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	see	past	the driver	boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Cars cannot reverse out of driveways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reverse	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reverse	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 reverse	advmod
4	reverse	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 driveways	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 driveways	case
7	driveways	driveway	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reverse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reverse out	can	Cars	driveways					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driveway=Patient

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

Drivers backing out often cannot see low down, so driveways are not for play

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	backing	back	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Drivers	acl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 backing	compound:prt
4	often	often	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 backing	advcl
8	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 play	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 play	advmod
12	driveways	driveway	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 play	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 play	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 play	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 play	case
16	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back out	gerund	Drivers and play not said here						vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not see	can	Drivers and play not said here					down, often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	present	driveways					for play	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, drivers can always see behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 drivers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Nothing drivers					always, behind property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The boy should play on the road instead, where drivers are looking out for children

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 looking	advmod
11	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 play	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 looking	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 children	case
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	should	the boy			the road		instead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look out	present · progressive	drivers					for children	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=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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