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title: A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach. Whom should she go to? — Lost outdoors · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach. Whom should she go to? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 49 «Lost outdoors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Lost outdoors

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A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach. Whom should she go to?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:1
# text = A girl gets lost at a large Irish beach.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Whom should she go to?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:2
# text = Whom should she go to?
1	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Someone sitting alone in a parked car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:o1:1
# text = Someone sitting alone in a parked car
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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The road to walk home on her own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:o2:1
# text = The road to walk home on her own
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The lifeguards at their station

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:o3:1
# text = The lifeguards at their station
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The edge of the water to look around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:49-lost-outdoors:t7:o4:1
# text = The edge of the water to look around
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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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