Test 14 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

Why is snatching a toy from a toddler more dangerous than it looks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toy · What happens: snatch, look · To what, where: toy

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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	3 snatching	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 snatching	aux
3	snatching	snatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toy	det
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snatching	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 toddler	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toddler	det
8	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snatching	obl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 dangerous	advmod
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snatching	advcl
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 looks	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 snatching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch	present · progressive		a toy				from a toddler	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent toy=Theme from toddler=Source
2	look	present	toy						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Toddlers always bite back very hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite back	present	Toddlers					always, hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Toddlers forget it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forget	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Toddlers	it					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The toy breaks every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the toy				time		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The toddler can fall over and hit their head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toddler	det
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hit	cc
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	can	the toddler					over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	past	the toddler not said here	their head					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme

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