Test 15 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

found a phone on the bus, finders keepers yeah

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find · To what, where: phone, bus

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bus	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keepers	punct
8	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keepers	compound
9	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bus	conj
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 found	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a phone		the bus and finders keepers			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Topic

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

Yes, if nobody saw you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if it's not locked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 locked	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 locked	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 locked	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 locked	advmod
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lock	present · passive		it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, hand it to the driver or the lost property

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 hand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hand	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 driver	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 property	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 property	det
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 property	amod
11	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	imperative	you not said here	it	the driver or the lost property				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to driver=Destination
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, it's yours now, the owner should've been careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 yours	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yours	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 yours	cop
5	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 careful	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 now	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 owner	det
9	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 careful	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 careful	aux
11	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 careful	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 careful	cop
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yours	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	yours					tree rules
2	is	should · perfect	the owner				now	careful property	tree rules

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