Test 7 · Going up and down stairs safely

What would happen if two children pushed each other on the stairs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, push · To what, where: two children, stairs

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 pushed	mark
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 children	nummod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushed	nsubj:pass
7	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pushed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stairs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stairs	det
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		two children		the stairs			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme other=Destination

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

Nothing, because stairs are soft and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soft	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 soft	mark
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soft	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	stairs					soft property	tree rules
2	be		stairs not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One could fall down many steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steps	amod
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	could	One	many steps					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient step=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would just make the game faster

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	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	the game				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material game=Product

Option 4

They would only ever slip one step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 slip	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 slip	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 slip	advmod
5	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 step	nummod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	would	They	one step			ever		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent step=Patient

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