Test 12 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

lost walking home, which way is it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: walking · What happens: walk, be · To what, where: way

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 275 «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walking	aux
2	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 is	csubj
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 walking	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	expl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past		which way				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	walking	way					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Get in a car with a stranger who says he knows the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stranger	acl:relcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here		a car	with a stranger	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	a stranger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	he	the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 2

Keep walking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	walk	gerund	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stop, think and go to a shop to call home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shop	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 call	mark
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	infinitive	you not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	you not said here	a shop		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
4	call	to-infinitive	you not said here		home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Hide until it's dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 dark	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					dark property	tree rules

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