Test 11 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people
lady asks me help find her lost puppy round the back. help her?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lady · What happens: ask, help, find, lose · To what, where: me, lost puppy, puppy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Strangers and tricky people» 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 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 asks | obj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | xcomp |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 puppy | amod |
| 8 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 back | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puppy | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | lady | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | infinitive | lady not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | infinitive | lady not said here | lady's lost puppy | round the back | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic | |||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | help | infinitive | puppy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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
Yes, helping lost puppies is kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 helping | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kind | csubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 puppies | amod |
| 5 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helping | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | lost puppies | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | helping | kind property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, if she looks like a nice lady with a kind face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 looks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | she | like a nice lady with a kind face | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, adults should ask other adults for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adults | amod |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | adults | other adults | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 4
Yes, but only for a few minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 minutes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 minutes | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 minutes | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minutes | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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