Test 16 · ★ · Safe and kind in gardens and forests

Why do people get lost after leaving a forest path?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: lose, leave · To what, where: people, forest path

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 229 «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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	5 lost	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lost	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 path	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 path	compound
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaving	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive · do-support		people					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	leave	gerund		a forest path					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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

Forests are always dark, even at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dark	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 noon	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 noon	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Forests				noon	always, dark property	tree rules

Option 2

Maps and compasses stop working once you are under the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 compasses	cc
3	compasses	compass	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Maps	conj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 trees	csubj
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 working	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trees	cop
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Maps and compasses			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	work	gerund			once you	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	working	the trees		tree rules

Option 3

Forest paths move around a little bit every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paths	compound
2	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	7 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Forest paths			a little bit	night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around bit=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trees look alike and it is easy to lose your way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 easy	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 easy	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lose	mark
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	csubj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Trees		alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Trees not said here		easy property	tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive		your way		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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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