Test 9 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

A child on a fifth-floor balcony thinks dropping a grape is harmless. Which is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, dropping · What happens: think, drop, be · To what, where: grape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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 child on a fifth-floor balcony thinks dropping a grape is harmless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinks	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 balcony	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 balcony	det
5	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 floor	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fifth	punct
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balcony	compound
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
9	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 harmless	csubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 grape	det
12	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropping	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 harmless	cop
14	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thinks	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a child on a floor balcony			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	gerund		a grape		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Theme
3	is	present	dropping		harmless 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.

Sentence 2: Which is TRUE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Things falling from a height can hurt someone below, so drop nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurt	nsubj
2	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Things	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 height	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 height	det
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falling	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 hurt	obj
9	below	below	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drop	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 drop	advmod
12	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 drop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	gerund	Things not said here		a height	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial_Location
2	hurt	can	Things	someone		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient
3	drop	infinitive	Things not said here	nothing		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 2

It is fine if nobody is looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 looking	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	nobody						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

A grape can never hurt anyone, it's soft and very light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grape	det
2	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hurt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soft	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 soft	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 soft	cop
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hurt	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 light	cc
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 light	advmod
13	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	a grape	anyone		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient
2	is	present	grape		soft property	tree rules
3	be		grape not said here			tree rules

Option 4

Only heavy things fall fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 heavy	advmod
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	heavy things					fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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