Test 15 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people

lady wants me to help find her lost dog round the corner

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lady, me · What happens: want, help, find, lose · To what, where: me, lost dog

This is test 15 · ★★ 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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	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 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dog	nmod:poss
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	lady	me		tree rules
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	me 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	me not said here	lady's lost dog	round the corner	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
4	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Say no and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Go if she shows a photo of the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 shows	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 photo	det
6	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 photo	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show a condition, not said to happen	present	she	a photo of the dog					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient

Option 3

Help her, because it is kind to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 kind	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Help	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kind	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	her = she		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	is	present	it		kind property	tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Go if you are quick and come straight back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 quick	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 quick	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	cop
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	conj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	quick property	tree rules
3	come	present	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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