Test 2 · ★ · Airports and planes

Why would a parent put on their own oxygen mask before their child's?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent · What happens: put · To what, where: own oxygen mask

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 271 «Airports and planes» 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	5 put	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 mask	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mask	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mask	amod
9	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mask	compound
10	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 child	nmod:poss
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
14	's	's	PART	_	13 child	case
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	would	a parent			their own oxygen mask	before their child		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on mask=Destination

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

The masks only fit adults, so they must be stretched first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 masks	det
2	masks	mask	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fit	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fit	advmod
4	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fit	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 stretched	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stretched	nsubj:pass
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stretched	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 stretched	aux:pass
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fit	conj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 stretched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	the masks	adults					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Patient
2	stretch	must · passive		masks = mask				first property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You cannot help anyone if you cannot breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 help	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 breathe	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 breathe	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 breathe	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 breathe	advmod
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	can	You		anyone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary
2	not breathe a condition, not said to happen	can	you						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Adults matter more than children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 matter	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Adults	more					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Children do not need oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Children	oxygen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme

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