Test 10 · ★ · Police, courts and prison
You are lost in a big shopping centre. Who is a good person to go to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lose, be, go · To what, where: You, big shopping centre, good person
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: You are lost in a big shopping centre.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 centre | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 centre | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centre | amod |
| 7 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centre | compound |
| 8 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | You | a big shopping centre | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: Who is a good person to go to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 person | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 person | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 go | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good person | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The first person who calls you over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 calls | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 calls | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call over speech: assert | present | the first person | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A police officer or a member of staff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officer | compound |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 member | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 member | det |
| 6 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officer | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 staff | case |
| 8 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 member | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A stranger in the car park
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 park | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 park | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 park | compound |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stranger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nobody, just keep walking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | infinitive | Nobody | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Nobody not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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