Test 4 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find
You find a phone on a park bench in Dublin. What is the best thing to do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, best thing · What happens: find, be, do · To what, where: phone, park bench
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You find a phone on a park bench in Dublin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bench | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bench | det |
| 7 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bench | compound |
| 8 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Dublin | case |
| 10 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bench | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | You | a phone | a park bench in Dublin | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the best thing to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Keep it, because «finders keepers», and that's the rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keepers | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 keepers | mark |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 keepers | punct |
| 6 | finders | finder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keepers | compound |
| 7 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 keepers | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rule | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rule | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 rule | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rule | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rule | det |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | finders keepers obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the rule | tree rules |
Option 2
Leave it on the ground nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl |
| 6 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | the ground | nearby property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Give it to an adult so they can find the owner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 adult | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 adult | det |
| 5 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owner | det |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | a adult | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to adult=Recipient | |||
| 2 | find | can | they | the owner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic |
Option 4
Use it until someone calls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Use | obj |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 calls | mark |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 calls | nsubj |
| 5 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Use | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present | someone | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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