Test 2 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

★★ Which headline is best for an article about a dog that found a lost child?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, dog · What happens: be, find, lose · To what, where: lost child

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the English 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 best	nsubj
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 headline	det
4	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 best	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 article	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 article	det
9	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 best	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 dog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 article	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	★		for a article about a dog; good property	tree rules
2	find	past	a dog	a lost child		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

HERO DOG FINDS LOST BOY

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	HERO	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 DOG	compound
2	DOG	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 FINDS	nsubj
3	FINDS	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	LOST	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 BOY	amod
5	BOY	BOY	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 FINDS	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	HERO DOG	LOST BOY					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Find out about dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Find	compound:prt
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 dogs	case
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	imperative	you not said here					about dogs	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dog=Topic

Option 3

Dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A dog found a little boy who had been lost for a while near the park on Tuesday

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 boy	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 while	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 park	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 park	det
16	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 Tuesday	case
18	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 park	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a dog	a little boy					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		a little boy		the park on Tuesday	while		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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