Test 3 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

Why should you not touch a needle you find in the street?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not touch, find · To what, where: needle, street

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 112 «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 touch	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 touch	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needle	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 touch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	should	you	a needle					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme needle=Co-Theme
2	find	present	you	a needle not said here		the street			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic

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 can carry dangerous infections

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 carry	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 infections	amod
5	infections	infection	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	It	dangerous infections					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme

Option 2

It could be magnetic

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 magnetic	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 magnetic	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 magnetic	cop
4	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	It					magnetic property	tree rules

Option 3

Needles are too light to pick up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 light	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 light	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 light	advmod
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pick	mark
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Needles					light property	tree rules
2	pick up	to-infinitive	Needles not said here						vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It might be someone's lost property

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	7 property	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 property	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 property	cop
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 property	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 property	amod
7	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	might	It	someone's lost property					tree rules

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