--- title: A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. What must the childre… — Crossing the road · tree and pragmatics description: A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. What must the children change when they cross roads there? Test 1 of lesson 41 «Crossing the road» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Crossing the road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/) / t1 # Test 1 · Crossing the road A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. What must the children change when they cross roads there? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** family, children · **What happens:** be, change, cross · **To what, where:** holiday, roads This is test 1 of lesson 41 «Crossing the road» 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/41-crossing-the-road/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:1 # text = A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a family from Florida | | | holiday | | in Sydney | 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. *Sentence 2:* What must the children change when they cross roads there? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:2 # text = What must the children change when they cross roads there? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | must | the children | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **cross** | present | children *= child* | roads | | there | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Look only straight ahead ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:o1:1 # text = Look only straight ahead 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 straight straight ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | ahead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nothing, the rule is the same everywhere ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:o2:1 # text = Nothing, the rule is the same everywhere 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nothing | | | | | everywhere, same *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Look left first as at home ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:o3:1 # text = Look left first as at home 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 left left ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 xcomp _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | as home; first, left *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Look right first instead of left ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:41-crossing-the-road:t1:o4:1 # text = Look right first instead of left 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 right right ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ 4 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 6 mark _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | first, right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **leave** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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