Test 11 · ★ · Roads and road signs

«why's the road all bumpy right outside our school, rubbish council» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: road · What happens: be · To what, where: best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 31 «Roads and road signs» 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	_	7 bumpy	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bumpy	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bumpy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bumpy	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 bumpy	advmod
7	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	csubj
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 school	advmod
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 school	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 school	nmod:poss
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bumpy	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 council	punct
13	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 council	compound
14	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 school	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 bumpy	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the road					outside our school and rubbish council; all, bumpy property	tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present		the best answer					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 bumps hide pipes that carry rainwater away from the school playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bumps	det
2	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pipes	acl:relcl
7	rainwater	rainwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 hide	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 playground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 playground	det
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 playground	compound
12	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	the bumps	pipes		the school playground		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient from playground=Beneficiary
2	carry	present	pipes	rainwater					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainwater=Theme

Option 2

The bumps are made by buses parking there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bumps	det
2	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 buses	case
6	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
7	parking	park	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 buses	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 parking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the bumps				by buses	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	park	gerund	buses not said here			there			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The council forgot to finish the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 finish	mark
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forgot	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the council						tree rules
2	not finish	to-infinitive	the council not said here	the road					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality road=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bumps are there to slow drivers down near children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bumps	det
2	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slow	mark
6	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
7	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slow	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bumps					there property	tree rules
2	slow down	to-infinitive	the bumps not said here	drivers				near children; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driver=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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