Exam question 1 · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

Identify the principal reason for which antifreeze presents a particular danger to children and dogs.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, antifreeze · What happens: identify, present · To what, where: principal reason, particular danger

This is exam question 1 of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 presents	obl
7	antifreeze	antifreeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presents	nsubj
8	presents	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 danger	det
10	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 danger	amod
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presents	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 danger	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dogs	cc
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 children	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	present	present	antifreeze	a particular danger				for the principal reason; to children and dogs	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent danger=Theme for which=Recipient

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

It has no harm unless it is heated first

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 harm	det
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 heated	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heated	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heated	aux:pass
8	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 has	advcl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 heated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no harm					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient
2	heat a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		harm				first property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It is bright blue and therefore easily seen

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 blue	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blue	cop
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blue	amod
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seen	cc
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 blue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					blue property	tree rules
2	see	participle						easily, therefore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

It tastes sweet, yet even a little can kill

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 tastes	nsubj
2	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tastes	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 kill	cc
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kill	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tastes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	It					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	kill	can	a little						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It is safe in small sips but not in large ones

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	in	in	ADP	_	6 sips	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sips	amod
6	sips	sip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 ones	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ones	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 ones	case
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sips	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			small sips but large ones		safe property	tree rules

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