Test 5 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

Why do many families fit corner guards to tables when they have a toddler?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many families, families · What happens: do, fit, have · To what, where: corner guards, tables, toddler

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 families	amod
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guards	compound
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 tables	case
9	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 have	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 toddler	det
14	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	many families not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fit	present	many families	corner guards	to tables goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient to table=Goal
3	have	present	families = family	a toddler		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toddler=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

The tables look nicer with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tables	det
2	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 look	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the tables					with them = they; nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Toddlers like to chew the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chew	mark
4	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Toddlers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	chew not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toddlers not said here	the guards					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient

Option 3

Corner guards make the tables last much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	compound
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tables	det
5	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 last	nsubj
6	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Corner guards						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	last	present	the tables					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Toddlers fall against sharp corners at head height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 corners	case
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 corners	amod
5	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 height	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 height	compound
8	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Toddlers			head height		against sharp corners	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against corner=Location

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