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Test 3 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people

A girl in Edinburgh is lost at a train station. Which person should she ask for help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: lose, ask · To what, where: girl, train station

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Edinburgh is lost at a train station.

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	6 lost	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Edinburgh	case
4	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 station	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 station	det
9	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 station	compound
10	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		a girl in Edinburgh		a train station			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: Which person should she ask for help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 help	case
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	which person					for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A station worker in uniform or a mum with children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worker	det
2	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worker	compound
3	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 uniform	case
5	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worker	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 mum	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mum	det
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worker	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mum	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Someone who offers to take her outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 offers	nsubj
3	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 offers	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present							tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive			her = she			outside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Option 3

A man who has been following her around for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 following	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 following	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 following	aux
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 man	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 following	obj
8	around	around	ADV	_	6 following	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 following	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow around	present · perfect · progressive	a man	her = she			while	around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Nobody, she should leave the station alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 leave	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 station	det
7	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should	Nobody	the station				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=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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