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Test 6 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

A boy in Aberdeen gets lost on the way home from a friend's. Which choice is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: choice · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: boy, way

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Aberdeen gets lost on the way home from a friend's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Aberdeen	case
4	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	13 friend	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nmod
14	's	's	PART	_	13 friend	case
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		a boy in Aberdeen		the way from a friend			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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.

Sentence 2: Which choice is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 choice	det
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which choice					good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sit down and wait until night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Keep walking faster and 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	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 walking	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 faster	cc
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 faster	conj

#	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

Get into a car with a kind stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	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	_	8 stranger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stranger	amod
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here			a car		with a kind stranger	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Go into a shop and ask to phone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 shop	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ask	cc
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 phone	mark
8	phone	phone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 phone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			a shop			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into shop=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	phone not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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