Test 1 · ★ · Safe toys for you and little ones
A girl in Toronto finds a coin-sized flat battery on the kitchen floor near her baby brother. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: find, size, be · To what, where: sized flat battery, kitchen floor
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 241 «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Toronto finds a coin-sized flat battery on the kitchen floor near her baby brother.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 battery | det |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sized | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 coin | punct |
| 9 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 battery | amod |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 battery | amod |
| 11 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | compound |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a girl in Toronto | a sized flat battery | the kitchen floor | near girl's baby brother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Topic | ||
| 2 | size | participle | 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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Give it to her brother to play with
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 brother | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | her brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Give it to a parent at once, because swallowing it is an emergency
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 parent | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Give | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 emergency | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 emergency | mark |
| 10 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 emergency | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 swallowing | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 emergency | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 emergency | det |
| 14 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | a parent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to parent=Recipient at once=Asset | |||
| 2 | swallow | gerund | parent | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | swallowing | a emergency | tree rules |
Option 3
Leave it, because batteries are much too small to hurt anyone at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 small | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 small | mark |
| 5 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 small | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 small | cop |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 small | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 small | advmod |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Leave | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hurt | mark |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 small | advcl |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 hurt | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | batteries | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | to-infinitive | batteries not said here | anyone | all | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
Option 4
Put it in the toy box with the other toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 box | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 5 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 box | compound |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 toys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 toys | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toys | amod |
| 10 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | the toy box | with the other toys | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Destination |
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