Test 5 · ★★ · First aid and safety
A girl in London calls 999 after an accident. Why should she not hang up first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: call, not hang up · To what, where: 999 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 39 «First aid and safety» of the world 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: A girl in London calls 999 after an accident.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 London | case |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 calls | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 accident | det |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | a girl in London | 999 | after a accident | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
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: Why should she not hang up first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hang | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hang | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hang | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hang | advmod |
| 5 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 hang | compound:prt |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 hang | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hang up | should | girl | first property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hanging up sends the call to the police
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sends | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Hanging | compound:prt |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 call | det |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 police | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 police | det |
| 8 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | send | present | Hanging | the call | the police | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent call=Theme to police=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The helper may need more information from you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 helper | det |
| 2 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 information | amod |
| 6 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | may | the helper | more information | from you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot information=Theme |
Option 3
It costs less money to stay on the line than to call again
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 | 2 costs | nsubj |
| 2 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 money | amod |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 costs | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 costs | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 line | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 call | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 call | mark |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | advcl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 call | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | It | less money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the line | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Location | |||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The ambulance follows the phone line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ambulance | det |
| 2 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 line | compound |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | the ambulance | the phone line | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
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