Test 6 · ★ · Lost outdoors
A family in Sydney arrives at a big festival. What can they do first to be ready if a child gets lost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, they · What happens: arrive, do, be, lose · To what, where: big festival, child
This is test 6 · ★ 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: A family in Sydney arrives at a big festival.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 festival | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 festival | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 festival | amod |
| 9 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | a family in Sydney | a big festival | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 can they do first to be ready if a child gets lost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | advcl |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ready | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ready | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | they | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a child | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Agree to shout as loud as possible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 shout | mark |
| 3 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Agree | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shout | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 possible | mark |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loud | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Agree that each child looks after themselves all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Agree | ccomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 looks | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | present | each child | after themselves = they; day | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Agree on a meeting point, like the entrance gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 point | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 point | det |
| 4 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 point | compound |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Agree | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gate | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 9 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gate | compound |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Agree | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | like the entrance gate; on a meeting point | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on point=Topic |
Option 4
Agree to search the car park first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 search | mark |
| 3 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Agree | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 park | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 park | compound |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 search | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 search | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | search not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the car park | first property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent park=Location |
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