Test 3 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

«cat's been gone 2 days, bloody hell, she's probably miles away» What is a good first step?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: be · To what, where: gone 2 days, good first step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 days	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 days	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 days	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 away	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hell	punct
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hell	amod
10	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 days	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 away	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 away	cop
14	probably	probably	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 away	obl:unmarked
16	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 step	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 step	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 step	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 step	amod
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 step	amod
23	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	cat	gone 2 days and bloody hell		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	cat		miles obl:unmarked; away, probably property	tree rules
3	is a	present		a good first step		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Drive to the next city and shout her name as loudly as you can from the car

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 city	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drive	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shout	cc
7	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Drive	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 loudly	advmod
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 shout	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 can	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 can	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 loudly	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 car	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 car	det
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here		the next city		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to city=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	her name	the car	loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	name		her = she				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Search neighbours' sheds and garages and call quietly at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 neighbours	compound
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sheds	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 neighbours	case
4	sheds	shed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 garages	cc
6	garages	garage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sheds	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 call	cc
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Search neighbours's sheds and garages				night	quietly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Buy a new cat straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	1 Buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a new cat				away property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 4

Wait a month before doing anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	gerund	you not said here	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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