Test 7 · Hiking and the outdoors
Two brothers set off on a forest walk without telling anyone. Why is this risky?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two brothers, this · What happens: set off, tell, be · To what, where: forest walk, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 47 «Hiking and the outdoors» 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: Two brothers set off on a forest walk without telling anyone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | compound |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 telling | mark |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 set | advcl |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 telling | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | Two brothers | a forest walk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Two brothers not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
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: Why is this risky?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 risky | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 risky | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 risky | nsubj |
| 4 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 risky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | risky property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The forest is closed to people who do not tell anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 closed | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tell | advmod |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present · passive | the forest | people | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to people=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · do-support | people | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 2
They will not be allowed back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 allowed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow back | future · passive | They | home property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nobody would know where to search if they got lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 search | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 lost | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 search | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | would | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lose a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | they | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 4
They might meet the wrong friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | aux |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 friends | det |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meet | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | might | They | the wrong friends | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent |
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