Test 3 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

Why is one swallowed magnet worrying but two magnets much worse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one swallowed magnet, two magnets · What happens: swallow, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 worrying	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worrying	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 magnet	nummod
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 magnet	amod
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worrying	nsubj
6	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 worse	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 magnets	nummod
9	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 worse	nsubj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 worse	advmod
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worrying	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 worrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	one swallowed magnet	worry property	tree rules
3	be		two magnets		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

Two magnets weigh far too much for a child to swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 magnets	nummod
2	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 weigh	nsubj
3	weigh	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 much	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weigh	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weigh	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 swallow	mark
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 weigh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	Two magnets	much				for a child	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
2	swallow	to-infinitive	Two magnets not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two can pinch the gut between them and tear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pinch	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pinch	aux
3	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gut	det
5	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pinch	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gut	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tear	cc
9	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pinch	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	can	Two	the gut				between them = they	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gut=Theme
2	tear	infinitive	Two not said here	gut					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Two magnets make a loud noise inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 magnets	nummod
2	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 noise	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noise	amod
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Two magnets	a loud noise				inside property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

Option 4

One magnet always comes back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 magnet	nummod
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 comes	advmod
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	One magnet					always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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