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Test 4 · ★★ · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

A family is lost in a forest after ignoring a junction sign. What could have kept them on track?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lose, ignore, keep · To what, where: family, forest, junction sign, them, track

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 325 «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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 family is lost in a forest after ignoring a junction sign.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 ignoring	mark
9	ignoring	ignore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lost	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sign	det
11	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sign	compound
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ignoring	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		a family		a forest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	ignore	gerund		a junction sign					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme

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 could have kept them on track?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 kept	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 track	case
7	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could · perfect		them = they		track			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme they=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Walking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Going downhill at every fork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 fork	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fork	det
5	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				every fork		downhill property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at fork=Location

Option 3

Following a deer path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 path	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 path	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 path	compound
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Checking the trail markers at every junction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 markers	det
3	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 markers	compound
4	markers	marker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Checking	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 junction	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 junction	det
7	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Checking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund		the trail markers		every junction			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marker=Theme

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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