Test 4 · ★ · Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom

Why should children stay away from a lawnmower in use?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: stay away · To what, where: lawnmower

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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 stay	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 lawnmower	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lawnmower	det
8	lawnmower	lawnmower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 use	case
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lawnmower	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	should	children			a lawnmower in use		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It can throw stones and cut toes

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 throw	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 toes	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 toes	amod
7	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	can	It	stones and cut toes					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	cut	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It makes the grass slippery to walk on

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 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 slippery	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the grass				slippery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material grass=Product
2	walk on	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It only cuts grass, so it is safe

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 cuts	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 cuts	advmod
3	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cuts	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 safe	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cuts	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	It	grass					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material grass=Product
2	is	present	grass					safe property	tree rules

Option 4

It is too loud for children's ears only

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	4 loud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 ears	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ears	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 children	case
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loud	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	8 ears	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for children's ears; loud property	tree rules

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