Test 5 · ★ · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking
A fox walks across your path in a park in London. What is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: walk, be · To what, where: path
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 fox walks across your path in a park in London.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 path | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 path | nmod:poss |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 London | case |
| 11 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 park | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a fox | your path | in a park in London | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory |
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 best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Follow it quietly to see where it lives and how many cubs it has
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Follow | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | advcl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cubs | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cubs | amod |
| 12 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lives | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cubs | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | it | quietly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | live | present | it | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | it | many cubs not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Stay still and quiet and let it go on its way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 Stay | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quiet | cc |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 still | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | its way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
Option 3
Throw it some of your crisps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Throw | obj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Throw | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 crisps | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 crisps | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | it | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination some=Theme |
Option 4
Shout to scare it off quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 scare | mark |
| 3 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Shout | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scare | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 scare | compound:prt |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 scare | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | scare off | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | quickly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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