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title: Near a school at 3 o'clock, why do cars drive slower? — Traffic lights, crossings and road signs · tree and pragmatics
description: Near a school at 3 o'clock, why do cars drive slower? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 267 «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Near a school at 3 o'clock, why do cars drive slower?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cars · **What happens:** drive · **To what, where:** school

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 267 «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs:t6:1
# text = Near a school at 3 o'clock, why do cars drive slower?
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present · do-support | cars |  |  | a school at 3 o'clock |  | slow *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cars always slow down when it is afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs:t6:o1:1
# text = Cars always slow down when it is afternoon
1	Cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | present | Cars |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | afternoon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The road is always narrower near schools, so cars must slow down for it

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs:t6:o2:1
# text = The road is always narrower near schools, so cars must slow down for it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	narrower	narrow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the road |  |  | schools |  | always, narrow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slow down** | must | cars |  |  |  |  | for road | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A school zone lowers the speed limit while children are near

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs:t6:o3:1
# text = A school zone lowers the speed limit while children are near
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lowers	lower	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lower** | present | a school zone | the speed limit |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | while children; near *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drivers like to look at the school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:267-traffic-lights-and-signs:t6:o4:1
# text = Drivers like to look at the school
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | Drivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Drivers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the school | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at school=Theme |

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**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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