Test 18 · ★ · Lost outdoors

Noah got lost on scout camp and they had to search for him, people are calling him Lost Boy, should i

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, people · What happens: lose, have, search, call · To what, where: Noah, scout camp, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 camp	case
5	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 camp	compound
6	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 search	mark
11	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 search	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calling	punct
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 calling	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 calling	aux
17	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 search	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 calling	obj
19	Lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 calling	ccomp
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Lost	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 should	punct
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
23	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 should	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		Noah	scout camp		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	have	past	they				tree rules
3	search	to-infinitive	they not said here			for Noah	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
4	call speech: assert	present · progressive	people	Noah			tree rules
5	lose	past		Boy			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because it is funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 funny	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 funny	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, but only at camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 camp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 camp	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 camp	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 camp	case
6	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the nickname is unkind; it could happen to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nickname	det
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unkind	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 unkind	cop
6	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 happen	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happen	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unkind	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the nickname					unkind property	tree rules
2	happen	could	it					to anyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, so he is more careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 careful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 careful	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 careful	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 careful	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 careful	advmod
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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