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title: Which is true? — Traffic lights, crossings and parked c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

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Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t3:1
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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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A green walk signal means it is your turn, not that every car will stop

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t3:o1:1
# text = A green walk signal means it is your turn, not that every car will stop
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a green walk signal |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | signal | your turn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | future | every car |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A green walk signal means no car can possibly come anywhere near you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t3:o2:1
# text = A green walk signal means no car can possibly come anywhere near you
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a green walk signal |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | can | no car |  |  |  |  | near you; anywhere, possibly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A red hand means cross quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t3:o3:1
# text = A red hand means cross quickly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a red hand | cross |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Zebra crossings are only for bicycles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:42-lights-crossings-and-parked-cars:t3:o4:1
# text = Zebra crossings are only for bicycles
1	Zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	crossings	crossing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Zebra crossings |  |  |  |  | for bicycles | tree rules |

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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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