Test 9 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

Why is it wiser to call medicine "medicine" around little children?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, call · To what, where: medicine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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 wiser	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiser	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wiser	nsubj
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 call	mark
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wiser	csubj
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 medicine	punct
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 medicine	punct
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wiser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wise property	tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive		medicine				around little children	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme medicine=Result

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

So they do not think it is a treat and look for more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 treat	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 treat	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 treat	det
9	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 more	case
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	they			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a treat		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	they not said here		for more	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for more=Theme

Option 2

So it tastes better to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 tastes	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tastes	nsubj
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tastes	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	it		them = they			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer

Option 3

Because candy is more expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 expensive	mark
2	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expensive	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expensive	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

So they learn a long word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 learn	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
3	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	they	a long word					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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