Test 2 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

Why can even a small coin dropped from a high balcony be dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: small coin, you · What happens: drop, be · To what, where: high balcony

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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	7 dropped	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	aux
3	even	even	ADV	_	6 coin	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coin	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
6	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 dangerous	csubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 balcony	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 balcony	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 balcony	amod
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dangerous	cop
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	can	a small coin			a high balcony			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from balcony=Trajectory
2	is	imperative	you not said here					dangerous 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It falls fast and can hurt someone below

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	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 falls	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hurt	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 falls	conj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hurt	obj
8	below	below	ADV	_	7 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	It					fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	can		someone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient

Option 2

Coins are always very heavy for their size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 heavy	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 size	nmod:poss
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Coins					for Coins's size; always, heavy property	tree rules

Option 3

It will get lost and nobody can find it

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 find	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	find	can	nobody	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

It will break the balcony

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	3 break	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 balcony	det
5	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	It	the balcony					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer balcony=Patient

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