Test 4 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Why must a toddler never be given a remote with loose batteries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not give · To what, where: toddler

This is test 4 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	7 given	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toddler	det
4	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	nsubj:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 given	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 given	aux:pass
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 remote	det
9	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 batteries	case
11	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 batteries	amod
12	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 given	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	must · passive		a toddler				with loose batteries	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient remote=Theme

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

He will keep changing the channel and break the TV's screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 channel	det
6	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 break	cc
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 TV	det
10	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 screen	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 TV	case
12	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	future	He		tree rules
2	change	gerund	He not said here	the channel	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient
3	break	infinitive	He not said here	the TV's screen	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer screen=Patient

Option 2

The remote will stop working forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 remote	det
2	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the remote						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the remote not said here					forever property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Batteries make toddlers too excited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 excited	advmod
5	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Batteries	toddlers				excited property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset toddler=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He can pull the batteries out and swallow them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 batteries	det
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swallow	cc
8	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	can	He	the batteries				out property	tree rules
2	swallow	infinitive	He not said here	batteries = battery					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/t4/