Test 15 · Going up and down stairs safely

why's mum so mad about my lego on the stairs lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be

This is test 15 of lesson 1 «Going up and down stairs safely» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 mad	advmod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	amod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lego	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lego	nmod:poss
8	lego	lego	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 stairs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stairs	det
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lego	nmod
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 why	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mum					why property	tree rules

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

Someone can step on it, fall and get badly hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 step	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 step	aux
3	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 step	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fall	punct
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 step	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 step	conj
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hurt	advmod
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	step	can	Someone	it		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	fall	infinitive	Someone not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	Someone not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hurt	participle	Someone not said here		badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It makes the stairs harder to clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stairs	det
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 clean	mark
7	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the stairs				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stair=Product
2	clean	to-infinitive	the stairs not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Stairs get scratched by the hard plastic bricks for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scratched	nsubj:pass
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scratched	aux:pass
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 bricks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bricks	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bricks	amod
7	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bricks	compound
8	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scratched	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scratched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present · passive	the hard plastic bricks	Stairs				for good	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Lego gets lost when it is on the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 is	nsubj
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stairs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stairs	det
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		Lego		the stairs			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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