Test 5 · Finding your way with landmarks

Which is true about walking a route for the first time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: route

This is test 5 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 walking	mark
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 route	det
7	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund		a route			time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme route=Trajectory

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 way back always looks exactly the same as the way out

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	5 looks	nsubj
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 way	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 looks	advmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 same	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 same	obl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 way	advmod

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

Option 2

Landmarks are only useful at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 useful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 useful	obl

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

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

Looking back helps you recognise it on the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 helps	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 helps	obj
5	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 recognise	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognise	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	help	present	Looking	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	recognise	infinitive	you not said here	it	the way	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

You should never look behind you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	should	You					behind you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind you=Theme

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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