Test 15 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

my mate swallowed two of those little magnet balls lol

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: swallow · To what, where: two

This is test 15 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 swallowed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 balls	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 balls	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 balls	amod
8	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 balls	compound
9	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 two	nmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 swallowed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	my mate	two of that little magnet balls					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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

Give him more to push them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	more	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient more=Theme
2	push	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

It's fine, they always come out the other end

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 end	amod
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	come out	present	they	the other end				always, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

Tell an adult now, they can hurt his gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gut	nmod:poss
10	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	hurt	can	they	adult's gut					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gut=Patient

Option 4

Tell him to lie down and rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lie	mark
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rest	cc
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	infinitive	you not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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