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Test 8 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink. What could be happening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toddler · What happens: play, happen · To what, where: kitchen sink

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toddler	det
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 playing	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 sink	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sink	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sink	compound
9	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 playing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	a toddler			the kitchen sink		quietly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What could be happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happening	aux
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He is sleeping and should be left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleeping	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeping	aux
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleeping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	He						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	should · passive	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

Quiet toddlers never touch anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 toddlers	amod
2	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touch	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	Quiet toddlers	anything					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He is certainly safe in there because he is quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 safe	advmod
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 there	case
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 safe	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 quiet	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 quiet	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 quiet	cop
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					certainly, safe property	tree rules
2	is	present	he					quiet property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He may be getting into something dangerous, so check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 getting	obl
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 check	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 check	advmod
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 getting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	may · progressive	He			something			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into something=Destination
2	check	infinitive	He not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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