Test 17 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

missed the last bus, it's dark n i'm alone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus, i · What happens: miss, be · To what, where: last bus, dark n

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bus	amod
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 missed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 n	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 n	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 n	cop
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 n	amod
9	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 missed	obl
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 alone	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 alone	cop
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 n	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	past		the last bus		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus
2	is a	present	bus	dark n		tree rules
3	is	present	i	dark n not said here	alone property	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

Wait quietly and tell nobody, someone will come by in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 come	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 end	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nobody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient
3	come	future	someone		by the end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by end=Location

Option 2

Walk home alone on the dark road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 road	amod
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			the dark road		alone, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory

Option 3

Hitchhike with a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitchhike	hitchhike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 stranger	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hitchhike	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitchhike	imperative	you not said here					with a stranger	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Call your parent or the emergency number if unsafe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parent	nmod:poss
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 number	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 number	compound
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parent	conj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 unsafe	mark
9	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		your parent or the emergency number				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

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