Test 15 · ★ · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

Why must kettle cords not hang over the edge of the counter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kettle cords · What happens: not hang · To what, where: edge

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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	6 hang	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	aux
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cords	compound
4	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hang	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hang	advmod
6	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hang	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 counter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 counter	det
12	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hang	must	kettle cords			the edge of the counter			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over edge=Location

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 cord gets dusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cord	det
2	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp

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

Option 2

The water cools faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the water					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A small child can pull it and be scalded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scalded	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 scalded	aux:pass
9	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	can	a small child	it					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	scald	infinitive · passive	a small child not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

Option 4

The kettle gets lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the kettle						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	participle	the kettle not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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