Test 11 · Finding your way with landmarks

why'd you keep looking back on the walk

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: keep, look back

This is test 11 of lesson 16 «Finding your way with landmarks» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 looking	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walk	det
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	you						tree rules
2	look back	gerund	you not said here					on the walk	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on walk=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.

The options

Option 1

To check nobody follows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 follows	nsubj
4	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	follow	present	nobody						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To count the houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 houses	det
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive		the houses					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The way back looks different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 looks	advmod
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the way					different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Because it is quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 quicker	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quicker	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quicker	cop
4	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					quick property	tree rules

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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