Test 7 · ★★ · First aid and safety
Walking home in winter darkness, what keeps you safest from cars?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: walk, keep · To what, where: winter darkness, you
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 darkness | case |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darkness | compound |
| 5 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeps | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 safest | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 keeps | obj |
| 10 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cars | case |
| 12 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 safest | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 safest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | winter darkness | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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
Wearing a dark coat so drivers are not dazzled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 dazzled | mark |
| 6 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dazzled | advmod |
| 9 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wearing | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | a dark coat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not dazzle | present · passive | drivers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 2
Walking with your eyes on your phone screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walking | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 screen | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 screen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 screen | compound |
| 8 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | your phone screen | with your eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Trajectory |
Option 3
Walking right down the middle of the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the middle of the road | right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down middle=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Wearing something bright or reflective
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 reflective | cc |
| 5 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bright | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | something | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=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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