Test 4 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

Why do some people get poisoned by drinks from old bottles?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: poison · To what, where: people, old bottles

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 poisoned	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poisoned	nsubj
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux:pass
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 drinks	case
8	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poisoned	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bottles	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bottles	amod
11	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poisoned	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 poisoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present · passive · do-support		some people		old bottles		by drinks	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 plastic turns into poison when the bottle is left in sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plastic	det
2	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 poison	case
5	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux:pass
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turns	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sunlight	case
12	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the plastic			poison			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poison=Trajectory
2	leave	present · passive		the bottle		sunlight			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in sunlight=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chemicals are sometimes stored in old drink bottles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stored	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stored	aux:pass
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 stored	advmod
4	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 bottles	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottles	amod
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bottles	compound
8	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present · passive		Chemicals		old drink bottles		sometimes property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in bottle=Location

Option 3

Old bottles make drinks go bad at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bottles	amod
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Old bottles	drinks					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	drinks not said here					bad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 4

Drink bottles are poison by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottles	compound
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poison	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poison	cop
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 poison	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Drink bottles	poison				by bottles = bottle	tree rules

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