Test 3 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

Why do people get poisoned by chemicals kept in old drink bottles?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chemicals · What happens: poison, keep · To what, where: people, chemicals, old drink bottles

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 114 «Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals» 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	5 poisoned	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisoned	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisoned	nsubj
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 poisoned	aux:pass
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 chemicals	case
7	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisoned	obl
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chemicals	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 bottles	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bottles	amod
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottles	compound
12	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 poisoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present · passive · do-support	chemicals	people					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	keep	participle		chemicals not said here		old drink bottles			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottle=Location

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

Chemicals always smell like juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 smell	advmod
3	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 juice	case
5	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Chemicals					like juice; always property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Drink bottles make chemicals stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottles	compound
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Drink bottles	chemicals				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material chemical=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Someone thinks it is a drink and swallows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drink	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swallows	cc
8	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swallows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Someone		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a drink	tree rules
3	swallow	present	Someone not said here	drink	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

The old bottle turns whatever drink is in it poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bottle	amod
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	6 drink	det
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turns	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turns	obl
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the old bottle			drink		poisonous, turn property	tree rules

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