Test 4 · ★ · Baths, water at home and doors

Why do wet wipes cause problems in pipes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wet wipes · What happens: cause · To what, where: problems, pipes

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 109 «Baths, water at home and doors» 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	3 wet	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	aux
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wipes	amod
4	wipes	wipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
5	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 pipes	case
8	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	wet wipes	problems		pipes			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient

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

They do not break up and they block the pipes

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 break	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 break	advmod
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 break	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 block	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 block	nsubj
8	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 break	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pipes	det
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break up	present · do-support	They						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	block	present	they	the pipes					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pipe=Theme

Option 2

They turn into toilet paper once they are in water

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 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 paper	case
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paper	compound
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 water	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 water	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 water	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They			toilet paper			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into paper=Trajectory
2	is	present	they			water			tree rules

Option 3

They make pipes too slippery

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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slippery	advmod
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	pipes				slippery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product

Option 4

They make the water too soapy

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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 soapy	advmod
6	soapy	soapy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the water				soapy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

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