Test 7 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

Why are box cutters dangerous for children?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: box cutters · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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 dangerous	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutters	compound
4	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	nsubj
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	box cutters					for children; 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

They are too blunt to be useful

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 blunt	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blunt	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 blunt	advmod
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 useful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 useful	cop
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blunt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					blunt property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	They not said here					useful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They only ever cut cardboard and nothing else at all

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 cut	nsubj:pass
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 cut	advmod
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 cardboard	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		They		all	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cardboard=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their thin blades slip easily and cut deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 blades	nmod:poss
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blades	amod
3	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slip	nsubj
4	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 slip	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cut	cc
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slip	conj
8	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	7 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Their thin blades					easily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cut	infinitive	Their thin blades not said here					deeply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They break if pushed too hard

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 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 pushed	mark
4	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 break	advcl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pushed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	They						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	push a condition, not said to happen	participle	They not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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