Test 8 · ★ · Lost outdoors

Why do searchers ask lost children to stay put rather than come to find them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: searchers · What happens: ask, lose, stay, put, come, find · To what, where: lost children, children

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stay	xcomp
10	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 come	cc
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 rather	fixed
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 find	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	searchers		lost children	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	searchers not said here			tree rules
4	put	infinitive	searchers not said here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	come	infinitive	searchers not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	to-infinitive	searchers not said here	children = child		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Searchers can cover an area properly if the child is not moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cover	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cover	aux
3	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 area	det
5	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cover	obj
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	3 cover	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 moving	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moving	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moving	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 moving	advmod
12	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cover	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	can	Searchers	a area				properly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination
2	not move a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	the child						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is against the law to walk in a forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				a forest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory

Option 3

Children walk too slowly to be useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 useful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 useful	cop
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Children					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Children not said here					useful property	tree rules

Option 4

Children always walk round in circles and end up back in the same place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 walk	advmod
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 circles	case
6	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 end	cc
8	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 end	compound:prt
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 end	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Children			circles		always, round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
2	end up	present	Children not said here					in the same place result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result

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