Test 19 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

my cousin said her friend drank from an old lemonade bottle in the shed and it was weedkiller and she nearly died. real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, friend · What happens: say, drink, be, die · To what, where: old lemonade bottle, weedkiller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 bottle	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bottle	amod
10	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottle	compound
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 shed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shed	det
14	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weedkiller	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 weedkiller	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 weedkiller	cop
18	weedkiller	weedkiller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 died	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 died	advmod
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drank	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lesson	amod
25	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	past	cousin's friend		a old lemonade bottle	in the shed	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=Source
3	is a	past	friend	weedkiller			tree rules
4	die	past	cousin			nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Never drink from a bottle you're not sure of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 drink	advmod
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bottle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sure	advmod
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bottle	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 sure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	imperative	you not said here			a bottle			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=Source
2	not is	present	you	a bottle not said here				sure property	tree rules

Option 2

Smell it first to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smell	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Smell	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Smell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	imperative	you not said here	it				first property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Old bottles always hold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bottles	amod
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Old bottles	water				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

Only drink lemonade from the shed if it's still fizzy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 drink	advmod
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 shed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 fizzy	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fizzy	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fizzy	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 fizzy	advmod
11	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drink	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	lemonade		the shed			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemonade=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	lemonade				still	fizzy property	tree rules

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