Test 10 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

watching my bro at the park n he's gone?! can't see him

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: watch, be, not see · To what, where: bro, park n, him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gone	csubj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 watching	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 n	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 n	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 n	compound
7	n	n	NOUN	_	1 watching	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?!	?!	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		my bro	the park n		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Theme
2	is	present	he			gone property	tree rules
3	not see	can		him = he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

Climb a tree to look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	a tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Go home and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Keep looking alone for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 looking	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	look	gerund	you not said here				hour	alone property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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