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title: lights flashing at the level crossing but no train yet, quick dash? — Railway crossings, maps and addresses · tree and pragmatics
description: lights flashing at the level crossing but no train yet, quick dash? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 275 «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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 10 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

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lights flashing at the level crossing but no train yet, quick dash?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lights · **What happens:** flash · **To what, where:** level crossing

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 275 «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses:t10:1
# text = lights flashing at the level crossing but no train yet, quick dash?
1	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dash	dash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | gerund | lights and quick dash *not said here* |  |  | the level crossing but no train | yet |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location |

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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}

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Yes, if you run

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, if you run
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go round the barrier before it closes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses:t10:o2:1
# text = Go round the barrier before it closes
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the barrier |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round barrier=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **close** | present | barrier |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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No, stop and wait, a train is coming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses:t10:o3:1
# text = No, stop and wait, a train is coming
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present · progressive | a train |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Duck under the barrier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses:t10:o4:1
# text = Duck under the barrier
1	Duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	barrier	barrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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