Exam question 4 · Lost outdoors

Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning searchers calling a lost child's name.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established guidance, searchers, lost child · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, call, lose · To what, where: response, searchers, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 49 «Lost outdoors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 guidance	acl
11	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 concerning	obj
12	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 searchers	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 child	case
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 calling	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with established guidance; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	established guidance not said here	searchers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus searcher=Experiencer
5	call	gerund	searchers not said here	a lost child's name		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
6	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	name		a lost child			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 child should hide until daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 daylight	case
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	should	the child				until daylight		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The child should remain silent until certain of their identity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remain	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remain	aux
4	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remain	xcomp
6	until	until	ADP	_	7 certain	case
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remain	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 identity	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 identity	nmod:poss
10	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 certain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	should	the child					certain, silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child should answer and never hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hide	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 hide	advmod
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	should	the child						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not hide	present	the child not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The child should run away from unknown voices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 voices	case
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voices	amod
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	should	the child			unknown voices		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from voice=Trajectory

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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