Test 9 · ★★ · What to do if you are lost

Why is it best not to wander when lost outdoors?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be, lose

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wander	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wander	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 best	obj
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 wander	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wander	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wander	mark
7	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wander	advcl
10	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wander	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present						wander, well property	tree rules
2	lose	participle						outdoors property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Wandering is the quickest way out of a forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		the quickest way		a forest			tree rules

Option 2

Wild animals only notice things that stand still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 notice	advmod
4	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stand	nsubj
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	Wild animals	things					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	stand	present	things				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Searchers start looking where you were last seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seen	mark
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 seen	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux:pass
7	last	last	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 start	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start	present	Searchers			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past · passive		you	last property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

Walking makes your footprints disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 footprints	nmod:poss
4	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappear	nsubj
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	walk	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present		tree rules
3	disappear	present	your footprints	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/t9/