Test 2 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

Which is TRUE about toddlers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 toddlers	case
5	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 TRUE	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about toddlers; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

When they go quiet, they may be getting into something dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 go	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	advcl
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 getting	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 getting	obl
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	they					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	may · progressive	they			something			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into something=Destination

Option 2

Quiet toddlers are always asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 toddlers	amod
2	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Noisy toddlers are the only ones in danger, never the quiet ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 toddlers	amod
2	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ones	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ones	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ones	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ones	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 ones	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Noisy toddlers	the only ones and the quiet ones		danger			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Toddlers never put things in their mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	present	Toddlers	things		Toddlers's mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination

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