Test 3 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home
A girl wants to keep magnets in her purse next to her library card. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: want, keep, happen · To what, where: magnets, purse
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl wants to keep magnets in her purse next to her library card.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 purse | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 purse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 card | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 card | nmod:poss |
| 13 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 card | compound |
| 14 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 next | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | magnets | girl's purse | next property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme in purse=Location |
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 could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The card's strip could be wiped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strip | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 card | case |
| 4 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wiped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wiped | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wiped | aux:pass |
| 7 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | could · passive | the card's strip | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
Option 2
The card would become magnetic money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 card | det |
| 2 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | the card | magnetic money | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Nothing at all can happen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | can | Nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The magnets would lose their power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magnets | det |
| 2 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | would | the magnets | magnets's power | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
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