--- title: Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fet… — Road and railway safety · tree and pragmatics description: Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball. How many are still on the far pavement? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Road and railway safety» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/t11/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/) / [Road and railway safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Road and railway safety Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball. How many are still on the far pavement? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Five friends, two, many · **What happens:** cross, run back, fetch, be · **To what, where:** crossing, ball, far pavement This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Road and railway safety» of the technology 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/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:1 # text = Five friends cross at the crossing, then two of them run back to fetch a ball. 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | present | Five friends | | | the crossing | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run back** | present | two of friends | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | two of friends *not said here* | a ball | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | 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:* How many are still on the far pavement? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:2 # text = How many are still on the far pavement? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many | | | the far pavement | still | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:o2:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:o3:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:27-road-and-railway-safety:t11:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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