Test 6 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

A family keeps old batteries in a jar and takes them to the supermarket battery bin. Why is this good?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, this · What happens: keep, take, be · To what, where: old batteries, jar, batteries, battery bin

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A family keeps old batteries in a jar and takes them to the supermarket battery bin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 batteries	amod
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 jar	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jar	det
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 takes	cc
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 takes	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 bin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bin	det
14	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 battery	compound
15	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bin	compound
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a family	old batteries		a jar			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent battery=Theme in jar=Location
2	take	present	a family not said here	batteries = battery		the battery bin			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bin=Destination

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: Why is this good?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 good	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 good	nsubj
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is the only way to buy new batteries

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	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 batteries	amod
9	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the only way					tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive		new batteries					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme

Option 2

It makes the old batteries charge up again so that they can be used once more

The tree, 16 words

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 batteries	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 batteries	amod
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 charge	nsubj
6	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 charge	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 charge	advmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 used	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	aux:pass
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 charge	advcl
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 used	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It				tree rules
2	charge up	present	the old batteries		again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	can · passive		batteries = battery		once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

It keeps poison out of the ground and fires out of bin lorries

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 ground	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fires	cc
9	fires	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 lorries	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lorries	case
12	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lorries	compound
13	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	poison		the ground			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent poison=Theme out ground=Location
2	fire out	present		bin lorries					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme

Option 4

Supermarkets pay a lot of money for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Supermarkets	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pay	nsubj
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lot	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Supermarkets	a lot of money				for them = they	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Asset for they=Theme

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