Test 10 · Cleaning chemicals and safety at home

Why might a few vitamin pills that look like sweets hurt a small child?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: few vitamin pills · What happens: look, hurt · To what, where: small child

This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Cleaning chemicals and safety at home» of the chemistry 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	11 hurt	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pills	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pills	amod
5	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pills	compound
6	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hurt	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pills	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 sweets	case
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hurt	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a few vitamin pills					like sweets	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hurt	might	a few vitamin pills	a small child					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient

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

Sweet-looking pills are made of plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looking	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sweet	punct
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pills	amod
4	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 plastic	case
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	make	present · passive		looking pills				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A small body is harmed by a smaller amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 body	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harmed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmed	aux:pass
5	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 amount	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 amount	det
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 amount	amod
9	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	present · passive	a smaller amount	a small body					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

Option 3

Vitamins are always a poison for everyone who takes them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poison	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poison	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 poison	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poison	det
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 poison	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 takes	nsubj
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Vitamins	a poison				for everyone; always property	tree rules
2	take	present		Vitamins = vitamin					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Children cannot take in any vitamins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 vitamins	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 vitamins	det
7	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	can	Children			any vitamins			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in vitamin=Location

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