Test 15 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

Why was letting down the bike tyres a dangerous thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: let down, do · To what, where: bike tyres

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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	3 letting	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 letting	aux
3	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	7 tyres	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tyres	det
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tyres	compound
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 letting	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tyres	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 letting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let down	past · progressive		the bike tyres					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

The rider could fall and get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rider	det
2	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	fall	could	the rider	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get	infinitive	the rider not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	hurt	participle	the rider not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It only wastes some of the air inside

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 wastes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wastes	advmod
3	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 wastes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 some	nmod
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 wastes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present	It	some				inside property	vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument some=Patient

Option 3

Flat tyres make the whole bike dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tyres	amod
2	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bike	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bike	amod
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Flat tyres	the whole bike				dirty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bike=Product

Option 4

Flat tyres can never be pumped again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tyres	amod
2	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pumped	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pumped	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 pumped	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pumped	aux:pass
6	pumped	pump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 pumped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pump	can · passive		Flat tyres			again		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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