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title: light's green for me but this car's turning without slowing — Traffic lights, crossings and parked c… · tree and pragmatics
description: light's green for me but this car's turning without slowing Test 14 · ★ of lesson 42 «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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 14 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

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light's green for me but this car's turning without slowing

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** car · **What happens:** slow, turn

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 42 «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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/42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t14:1
# text = light's green for me but this car's turning without slowing
1	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	turning	turning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	slowing	slow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** |  | this car |  |  |  |  |  | nom turning «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Wait and let it pass, then cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t14:o1:1
# text = Wait and let it pass, then cross
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Run in front of it quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t14:o2:1
# text = Run in front of it quickly
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | front of front |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Walk out, it is your turn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t14:o3:1
# text = Walk out, it is your turn
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | your turn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Step out and wave at him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t14:o4:1
# text = Step out and wave at him
1	Step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wave** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |

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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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