Test 17 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

did u hear a toddler swallowed one of those little round batteries and it burnt a hole in her throat? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, toddler · What happens: hear, swallow, burnt · To what, where: one, hole, throat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toddler	det
5	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	nsubj
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 swallowed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 batteries	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 batteries	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 batteries	amod
11	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 batteries	amod
12	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 burnt	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 burnt	nsubj
15	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swallowed	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hole	det
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burnt	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 throat	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throat	nmod:poss
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hole	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 lesson	punct
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burnt	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	swallow	past	a toddler	one of that little round batteries			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	burnt	past	toddler	a hole	her throat	real lesson obl	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

Give the child milk and let them sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 milk	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 milk	compound
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the child milk	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	them = they	tree rules
3	sleep	infinitive	them = they not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A swallowed button battery is a hospital emergency at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battery	det
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 battery	amod
3	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battery	compound
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emergency	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 emergency	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 emergency	det
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emergency	compound
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 emergency	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a swallowed button battery	a hospital emergency					tree rules

Option 3

Wait to see if it comes out by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 comes	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come out a condition, not said to happen	present	it	by itself = it	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Only big batteries are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 batteries	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 batteries	amod
3	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	big batteries					dangerous property	tree rules

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