Test 5 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising
Your 2-year-old sister is crawling near your marble game on the floor. What is the danger?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old sister, danger · What happens: crawl, be · To what, where: marble game
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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: Your 2-year-old sister is crawling near your marble game on the floor.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawling | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crawling | aux |
| 9 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 game | nmod:poss |
| 12 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 game | compound |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawling | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 game | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crawling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present · progressive | Your old sister | your marble game on the floor | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near game=Trajectory |
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 the danger?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the danger | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She could knock all the marbles out of order and spoil the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knock | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 knock | aux |
| 3 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 marbles | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 marbles | det |
| 6 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knock | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knock | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoil | cc |
| 11 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knock | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoil | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | could | She | all marbles | order | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent marble=Theme out order=Destination | |||
| 2 | spoil | infinitive | She not said here | the game | tree rules |
Option 2
The marbles will get dirty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marbles | det |
| 2 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | the marbles | dirty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
She might win the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 win | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | might | She | the game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She could put a marble in her mouth and choke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 marble | det |
| 5 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 choke | cc |
| 10 | choke | choke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | could | She | a marble | her mouth and choke | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent marble=Theme in mouth=Destination |
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