Test 3 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Why are toy boxes with heavy lids a danger to small children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: toy boxes

This is test 3 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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	4 boxes	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boxes	cop
3	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boxes	compound
4	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 lids	case
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lids	amod
7	lids	lid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boxes	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 danger	det
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lids	appos
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 children	case
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 danger	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boxes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		toy boxes				with heavy lids	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

Heavy lids make toys break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lids	amod
2	lids	lid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Heavy lids	toys					tree rules
2	break	infinitive	toys not said here						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The lid can slam down on heads and fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slam	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slam	aux
4	slam	slam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 slam	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 heads	case
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slam	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fingers	cc
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam down	can	the lid			heads and fingers			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Small children cannot open any box with a lid on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 lid	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lid	det
10	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not open	can	Small children	any box		children's own		with a lid	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent box=Theme on own=Location

Option 4

Children get bored of heavy boxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 boxes	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boxes	amod
6	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Children					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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