Test 7 · ★ · Lost outdoors
A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach. Whom should she go to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: get, lose, go · To what, where: large Irish beach
This is test 7 · ★ 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 girl gets lost at a large Irish beach.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beach | amod |
| 8 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beach | amod |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | a girl not said here | a large Irish beach | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at beach=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.
Sentence 2: Whom should she go to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 go | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 go | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | girl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whom=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Someone sitting alone in a parked car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Someone | acl |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 sitting | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 6 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 car | amod |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | a parked car | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location | ||||
| 2 | park | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The road to walk home on her own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 walk | mark |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 walk | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | to-infinitive | the road | road's own | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The lifeguards at their station
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lifeguards | det |
| 2 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 station | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 station | nmod:poss |
| 5 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifeguards | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The edge of the water to look around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 edge | det |
| 2 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 edge | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 edge | acl |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | to-infinitive | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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