Test 5 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

«the crane's swinging a load over us, cool, let's stand right under it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crane, you, 's · What happens: swing, let, stand, be · To what, where: load, 's, crane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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	_	5 swinging	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crane	det
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swinging	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swinging	aux
5	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 let	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 load	det
7	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swinging	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 swinging	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cool	punct
11	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swinging	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swinging	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	right	right	ADV	_	18 it	advmod
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stand	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stand	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing in a quote	present · progressive	the crane	a load		over us	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme load=Result
2	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	's			tree rules
3	stand in a quote	infinitive	's not said here		crane		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never stand under a load: it could fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 stand	advmod
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 load	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 load	det
5	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stand	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	aux
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	imperative	you not said here			a load			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under load=Location
2	fall	could	load						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only dangerous at night

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	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dangerous	obl

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

Option 3

It's fine, if you wear a cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wear	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 wear	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wear	nsubj
7	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	wear a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a cap					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme

Option 4

It's safe, cranes never drop anything, the hooks lock shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drop	punct
5	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drop	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 drop	advmod
7	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	conj
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 drop	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lock	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hooks	det
11	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lock	nsubj
12	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	conj
13	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lock	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		safe property	tree rules
2	not drop	present	cranes	anything		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
3	lock	present	the hooks		shut property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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