Test 8 · Finding your way with landmarks
Your phone map stops working in a town you have walked through. What helps most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: phone map, you · What happens: stop, work, walk through, help · To what, where: town
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Your phone map stops working in a town you have walked through.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 map | nmod:poss |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 map | compound |
| 3 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stops | nsubj |
| 4 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stops | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 working | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | aux |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 town | acl:relcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Your phone map | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Your phone map not said here | in a town | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in town=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk through | present · perfect | you | a town not said here | through property | vn rehearse-26.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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.
Sentence 2: What helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 helps | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Looking for moss on the trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 moss | case |
| 3 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | the trees | for moss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for moss=Theme on tree=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Remembering the landmarks you passed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 landmarks | det |
| 3 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Remembering | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landmarks | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | the landmarks | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | you | the landmarks not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landmark=Trajectory |
Option 3
Shaking the phone very hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 phone | det |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shaking | obj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Shaking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | the phone | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
Option 4
Walking straight on in any direction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | any direction | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on direction=Trajectory |
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