Test 4 · ★ · Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher

Why should you never carry a hot drink while holding a baby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not carry, hold · To what, where: hot drink, baby

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 107 «Oven, hob, kettle, toaster and dishwasher» 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=Int	5 carry	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 carry	advmod
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 holding	mark
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 carry	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	should	you	a hot drink					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
2	hold	gerund	you not said here	a baby					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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 baby will want to drink the tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tea	det
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	future	the baby						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	the baby not said here	the tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The drink could spill and scald the baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spill	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spill	aux
4	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scald	cc
6	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spill	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scald	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	could	the drink						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scald	infinitive	the drink not said here	the baby					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 3

Babies do not like the smell of tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smell	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tea	case
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Babies	the smell of tea					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme
2	smell		tea						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Carrying both at the same time is too heavy to manage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 heavy	csubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Carrying	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 heavy	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 heavy	advmod
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 manage	mark
11	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		both	time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme
2	is	present	Carrying			heavy property	tree rules
3	manage	to-infinitive	Carrying not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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