Test 12 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

the old remote battery has white crusty stuff on it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: old remote battery · What happens: have · To what, where: white crusty stuff, stuff

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battery	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 battery	amod
3	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 battery	amod
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
7	crusty	crusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stuff	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old remote battery	white crusty stuff		stuff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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

It's just salt, it's harmless

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 salt	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 salt	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 salt	advmod
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 salt	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 harmless	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 harmless	cop
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salt	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	salt					tree rules
2	is	present	salt	salt not said here				harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

Lick it to see if the battery still works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lick	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lick	advcl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 works	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 battery	det
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 works	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 works	advmod
9	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	it		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	work a condition, not said to happen	present	the battery		still	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't touch it bare-handed, it can burn skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touch	obj
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 handed	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bare	punct
7	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 touch	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burn	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 burn	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 burn	aux
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 touch	conj
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not touch	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	hand	participle	you not said here		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	burn	can	it	skin	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 4

Scrape it off with your fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrape	scrape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scrape	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Scrape	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scrape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape off	imperative	you not said here	it				with your fingers	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with finger=Instrument

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