Test 13 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

lost my family at the parade and we never picked a meeting spot

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: lose, not pick · To what, where: family, parade, meeting spot

This is test 13 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 parade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parade	det
6	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 picked	cc
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 picked	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 picked	advmod
10	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 lost	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spot	det
12	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spot	compound
13	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		my family		the parade			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality
2	not pick	past	we	a meeting spot					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

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

Walk home alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					alone, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Go with a stranger who offers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 stranger	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 offers	nsubj
6	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stranger	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with a stranger	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with stranger=Beneficiary
2	offer	present	a stranger						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Keep running through the crowd till you spot them yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 crowd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 running	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 spot	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 spot	nsubj
8	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spot	obj
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 spot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	run	gerund	you not said here		the crowd		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Trajectory
3	spot	present	you	them = they		yourself obl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stay put and ask a police officer or a steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 officer	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 officer	compound
7	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 steward	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 steward	det
10	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 officer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	put	participle	you not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	a police officer or a steward	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient

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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