Test 14 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

Why are cords and hoodie strings dangerous on slides?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cords · What happens: be · To what, where: slides

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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	7 dangerous	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
3	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 strings	cc
5	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strings	compound
6	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cords	conj
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 slides	case
9	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cords and hoodie strings			slides		dangerous property	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

They get dirty on the slide very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 slide	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slide	det
6	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	They			the slide		dirty, quickly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on slide=Source

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

They can catch and choke a child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 choke	cc
5	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	They						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	choke	infinitive	They not said here		a child				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Destination

Option 3

They make the child slip off the side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 make	obj
5	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 slip	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the child					tree rules
2	slip off	infinitive	the child not said here	the side					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 4

They make the slide much slower for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slide	det
4	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 slower	advmod
6	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 slower	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the slide				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slide=Product

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