Test 2 · ★ · Knives, kitchen tools and cooking

Which is true about blunt knives?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 knives	case
5	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knives	amod
6	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about blunt knives; true 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

They cannot hurt anyone, however hard you push

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	4 hurt	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hurt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 push	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 push	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 push	nsubj
10	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	They	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient
2	push	present	you					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

They slip because you push harder

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	2 slip	nsubj
2	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 push	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 push	nsubj
5	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slip	advcl
6	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	They						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	push	present	you					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are better for children

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	3 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					for children; good property	tree rules

Option 4

They never need sharpening

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	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sharpen not said to happen	gerund	They not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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