Test 2 · ★ · Lost outdoors

Two searchers walk towards a lost girl while she walks away to look for them. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two searchers, girl · What happens: walk, lose, walk away, look, happen

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Two searchers walk towards a lost girl while she walks away to look for them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 searchers	nummod
2	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 girl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 walks	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walks	nsubj
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	advcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 walks	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 walks	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Two searchers	towards a lost girl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards girl=Destination
2	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk away	present	girl	away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	girl not said here	for searchers = searcher	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They may take much longer to meet, or miss each other

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 take	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 take	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 miss	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 miss	cc
10	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 miss	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	may	They		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	meet	to-infinitive	They not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	miss	present		each		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 2

They will meet faster because both of them are moving towards each other

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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 meet	aux
3	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 meet	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 moving	mark
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 moving	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 moving	aux
10	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 meet	advcl
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 moving	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	future	They					fast property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	present · progressive	both			each			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards each=Trajectory

Option 3

Searchers always guess where she is walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guess	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 guess	advmod
3	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 walking	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walking	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 guess	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Searchers					always property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	present · progressive	she						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Moving makes her easier to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present		her = she	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
3	hear	to-infinitive	her = she not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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