Test 8 · ★ · Plastic bags, medicines and chemicals

Why is liquid nicotine dangerous to a small child?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nicotine	amod
4	nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	obl:unmarked
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to a small child; liquid nicotine obl:unmarked; dangerous property	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 · ← Mova's choice

It is safe because it smells sweet

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 smells	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smells	nsubj
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	advcl
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smells	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					safe property	tree rules
2	smell	present	it					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It is only dangerous if it is set on fire

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	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 set	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux:pass
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dangerous	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					dangerous property	tree rules
2	set a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		it		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination

Option 3

It only stains the fingers

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 stains	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 stains	advmod
3	stains	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fingers	det
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	present	It	the fingers					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Even a small amount is poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 amount	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 amount	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amount	amod
4	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisonous	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	cop
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small amount					poisonous property	tree rules

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