Test 12 · ★ · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking
blunt knife's safer for kids innit
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 105 «Knives, kitchen tools and cooking» 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 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knife | amod |
| 2 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | obl |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 knife | case |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 innit | case |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 innit | compound |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safer | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, if you press really hard it cuts fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 cuts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 press | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 press | nsubj |
| 5 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cuts | advcl |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 press | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cuts | nsubj |
| 9 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cuts | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press a condition, not said to happen | present | you | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cut | present | it | fine property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, blunt knives never slip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 slip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knives | amod |
| 4 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slip | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 slip | advmod |
| 6 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slip | present | blunt knives | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it needs more force and slips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 needs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 force | amod |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slips | cc |
| 8 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 force | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | it | more force and slips | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, blunt knives cannot cut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 blunt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knives | amod |
| 4 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cut | advmod |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut | can | blunt knives | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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