Test 14 · Remembering details

lost at the station, police asks mum's number and i forgot it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lost police, i · What happens: lose, ask, forget · To what, where: station, number

This is test 14 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 police	amod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 station	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 station	det
4	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lost	punct
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	nsubj
7	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 number	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mum	case
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgot	cc
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asks	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	participle			the station	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at station=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present	lost police	mum's number		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient
3	forget	past	i	number		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

It does not matter, they will just guess it from your name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 guess	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guess	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 guess	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 guess	advmod
9	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matter	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guess	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 name	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	guess	future	they	it	your name	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Numbers are only for grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ups	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ups	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Numbers					for grown ups	tree rules

Option 3

Just give them any number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	any number	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient number=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Learn it by heart now, it gets you home much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Learn	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 heart	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Learn	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Learn	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 gets	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 gets	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 faster	advmod
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	it			now	by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	get	present	heart	you				fast, home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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