Test 19 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

everyone's saying the boy who got lost walking home is "too dumb to read a map". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, boy · What happens: say, lose, walk, be, read, pass on · To what, where: boy, home, map · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dumb	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lost	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boy	acl:relcl
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lost	advcl
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dumb	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dumb	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 dumb	advmod
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 read	mark
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dumb	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 map	det
18	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dumb	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pass	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	21 pass	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past · passive		the boy		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	walk	gerund		home		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Trajectory
4	is in a quote	present	the boy		dumb property	tree rules
5	read in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	a map		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Topic
6	pass on	infinitive	everyone not said here	map		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that's unkind; just learn to stop and go somewhere safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unkind	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 learn	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 learn	advmod
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unkind	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learn	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learn	conj
13	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 go	advmod
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	that	unkind property	tree rules
2	learn	infinitive	that not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	to-infinitive	that not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	go	infinitive	that not said here	safe, somewhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it's true so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and say it to his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it	his face				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to face=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, and laugh about it at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			lunch		about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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