Test 5 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, small child · What happens: be, swallow · To what, where: button battery

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dangerous	nsubj
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 swallows	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallows	nsubj
9	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 battery	det
11	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 battery	compound
12	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallows	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dangerous property	tree rules
2	swallow a condition, not said to happen	present	a small child	a button battery					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient

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

It passes through and does no harm

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	2 passes	nsubj
2	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	2 passes	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 does	cc
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 passes	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 harm	det
7	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass through	present	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present		no harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can burn through the throat within about two hours

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 burn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 throat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 throat	det
6	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 hours	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 two	advmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can	It			the throat	hour		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location

Option 3

It only causes a small tummy ache

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 causes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 causes	advmod
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ache	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ache	amod
6	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ache	compound
7	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	a small tummy ache					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient

Option 4

It makes the child feel full

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the child					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	the child not said here					full property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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