Test 15 · Finding your way with landmarks

lost dad at the mall, we were near the fountain

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: dad, mall, fountain

This is test 15 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	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 mall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mall	det
5	mall	mall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fountain	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fountain	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fountain	cop
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 fountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fountain	det
11	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		dad		the mall			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	is	past	we			the fountain			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

Go with anyone who offers a lift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 anyone	case
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Go	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 offers	nsubj
5	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 anyone	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lift	det
7	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with anyone	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with anyone=Beneficiary
2	offer	present		a lift					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent lift=Theme

Option 2

Leave the mall and wait by the car until he comes out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mall	det
3	mall	mall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 car	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 comes	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the mall		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mall=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here		by the car	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by car=Location
3	come out	present	he			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stay or go back to the fountain and ask a worker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 go	cc
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 worker	det
11	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	infinitive	you not said here		to the fountain result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fountain=Result
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	a worker		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient

Option 4

Walk around until you see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk around	imperative	you not said here					around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	you	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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