Test 3 · ★★ · What to do if you are lost

If a lost hiker kept walking all day, what would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lost hiker · What happens: lose, keep, walk, happen

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 17 «What to do if you are lost» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 kept	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hiker	det
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hiker	amod
4	hiker	hiker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happen	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 likely	advmod
13	likely	likely	ADV	_	14 happen	advmod
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walking	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	a lost hiker			tree rules
3	walk	gerund	a lost hiker not said here	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Searchers would take longer to find her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 take	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	csubj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Searchers					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	to-infinitive		her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 2

She would surely reach a town by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would	She	a town			night	surely property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 3

She would walk straight back to the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 back	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	She					to the start result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to start=Result

Option 4

Searchers would find her more quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Searchers	her = she				quickly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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