Test 16 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

remote's battery cover broke, battery's loose

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: battery cover · What happens: break · To what, where: battery

This is test 16 · ★ 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	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 remote	case
3	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	compound
4	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 battery	punct
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 battery	case
9	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 broke	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	remote's battery cover	battery				loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer battery=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 · ← Mova's choice

Leave it, kids won't touch a remote anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 touch	punct
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touch	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 remote	det
9	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 touch	obj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 touch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not touch	future	kids	a remote				anyway property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remote=Co-Theme

Option 2

Put the battery on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battery	det
3	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the battery		the floor			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme on floor=Destination

Option 3

Give it to the baby to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 baby	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it	the baby				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to baby=Recipient
2	hold	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tape it shut or put it away from little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tape	tape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tape	obj
3	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tape	xcomp
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tape	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 ones	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tape	imperative	you not said here	it				shut property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	it				away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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