Test 6 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

Why is a garden pond a danger for a toddler even if it is shallow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garden pond · What happens: be · To what, where: garden pond

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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 pond	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pond	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pond	compound
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shallow	nsubj:outer
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 danger	det
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shallow	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 toddler	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toddler	det
10	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 danger	nmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	15 shallow	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 shallow	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shallow	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shallow	cop
15	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 shallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a garden pond					tree rules
2	is	present	a garden pond					shallow 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

The fish might bite the toddler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toddler	det
6	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	might	the fish	the toddler					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toddler=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Young children can drown in very shallow water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drown	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drown	aux
4	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 shallow	advmod
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	can	Young children			shallow water			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Shallow water cannot hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	Shallow water	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 4

Ponds are only dangerous in winter when the ice is thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 thin	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thin	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thin	cop
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dangerous	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ponds				winter	dangerous property	tree rules
2	is	present	the ice					thin property	tree rules

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