Test 1 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

A family in Florida has a new baby and a four-year-old with a box of tiny toy beads. Which plan is wisest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, plan · What happens: have, be · To what, where: new baby

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 family in Florida has a new baby and a four-year-old with a box of tiny toy beads.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baby	amod
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 old	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 old	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 year	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 four	punct
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baby	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 box	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 box	det
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 beads	case
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beads	amod
21	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beads	compound
22	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 box	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a family in Florida	a new baby					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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.

Sentence 2: Which plan is wisest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wisest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wisest	cop
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wisest	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The baby can play with beads too, if they are big and brightly coloured

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 beads	case
6	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 big	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 big	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 big	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 big	cop
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 play	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 coloured	cc
14	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	15 coloured	advmod
15	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	play	can	the baby	with beads	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bead=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	beads = bead	big property	tree rules
3	colour	participle	beads = bead not said here	brightly property	tree rules

Option 2

The baby plays with beads only when it is not hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	nsubj
3	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 beads	case
5	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plays	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	11 hungry	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 hungry	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hungry	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hungry	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hungry	advmod
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	the baby					with beads	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bead=Theme
2	not is	present	baby					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The four-year-old plays with beads only at a table the baby cannot reach

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plays	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 four	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plays	amod
7	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 table	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 beads	case
9	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plays	nmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 table	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reach	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reach	advmod
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 table	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the baby	a table not said here					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent table=Theme

Option 4

The beads stay on the floor so they are easy to find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beads	det
2	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 easy	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 easy	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	cop
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the beads	the floor		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	is	present	beads = bead		easy property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	beads = bead not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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