Test 4 · ★ · Lost outdoors

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

A lost child should keep walking until they find a road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 find	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	should	a lost child		tree rules
3	walk	gerund	a lost child not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	present	they	a road	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic

Option 2

Searchers start looking far from where the child was last seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 start	xcomp
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 where	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 where	case
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 looking	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux:pass
10	last	last	ADV	_	11 seen	advmod
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 where	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start	present	Searchers			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	gerund	Searchers not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from where=Theme
3	see	past · passive		the child	last property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A child who stays in one place is usually found faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 child	acl:relcl
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 stays	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	a child			one place			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	find	present · passive		a child				fast, usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Hiding helps searchers find you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hide	gerund			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present		searchers	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent searcher=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	find	infinitive	searchers not said here	you	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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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