Test 17 · ★ · Lost outdoors

my mate says if ur lost in the forest just keep walking downhill and you'll always find a town

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, ur, you · What happens: say, lose, keep, walk, find · To what, where: forest, ur, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 49 «Lost 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

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 keep	mark
5	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 keep	obl
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ur	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 keep	advmod
11	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keep	xcomp
13	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	12 walking	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 keep	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	participle			the forest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality
3	keep a condition, not said to happen	present		ur			tree rules
4	walk	gerund	ur not said here			downhill property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	future	you	a town		always property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Topic

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

He is right, if you walk all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 walk	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	present	you				night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is right, downhill always leads to towns and roads in every forest in the world

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leads	punct
5	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	7 leads	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 leads	advmod
7	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 towns	case
9	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leads	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roads	cc
11	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 towns	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leads	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	lead	present	He not said here			every forest in the world		to towns and roads; always, downhill property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to town=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not reliable; stay in one place, as someone who stays still is easier to find

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 reliable	advmod
2	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 easier	advcl
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 reliable	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 place	nummod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 someone	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 stay	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stays	nsubj
12	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 someone	acl:relcl
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 stays	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 easier	cop
15	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	infinitive	one place		as someone	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	stay	present		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present			easy property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is right, but only in Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Canada	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 Canada	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 Canada	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			Canada		right property	tree rules

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