Test 17 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

my mate says his family "lost each other at the fair for 6 hours". what's the true bit to learn

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, family · What happens: say, lose, be, learn · To what, where: other, fair, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lost	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 fair	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fair	det
12	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hours	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 bit	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bit	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bit	det
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bit	amod
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 learn	mark
24	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bit	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose in a quote	participle	mate's family	each other	the fair	hour	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
3	is a	present		the true bit			tree rules
4	learn	to-infinitive	my mate not said here				vn learn-14-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Agree a meeting point first so you find each other fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 point	det
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 point	compound
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agree	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Agree	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Agree	advcl
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 find	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here	a meeting point				first property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic
2	find	present	you	each				fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only little kids get lost at fairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 kids	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 fairs	case
7	fairs	fair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		little kids		fairs			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Just keep walking round and round till you bump into them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 walking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 round	cc
6	round	round	ADV	_	4 round	conj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 bump	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bump	nsubj
9	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	walk	gerund	you not said here	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bump	present	you	into them = they	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into they=Location

Option 4

Fairs are too big to ever meet up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairs	fair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 big	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 meet	advmod
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 meet	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fairs					big property	tree rules
2	meet up	to-infinitive	Fairs not said here				ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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