Test 8 · ★ · Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up

Why is it better to report a lost item quickly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, report, lose · To what, where: lost item

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 285 «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 better	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 report	mark
6	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 item	det
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 item	amod
9	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 report	obj
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 report	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		good property	tree rules
2	report	to-infinitive		a lost item	quickly property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Patient
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Lost things come back by themselves if you wait long enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 come	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 wait	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wait	nsubj
9	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 wait	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	present	Lost things	by things = thing	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
3	wait a condition, not said to happen	present	you	enough, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It makes you look clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	you					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	you not said here					clever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is easier to find and easier to explain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 easier	cc
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 easier	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 explain	mark
9	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	present	easy property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	be			tree rules
4	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Late reports get a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reports	amod
2	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prize	det
5	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Late reports	a prize					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus

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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