Test 10 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

Why do toddlers choke on small objects more than older children?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: toddlers · What happens: choke · To what, where: more, small objects

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 choke	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 choke	aux
3	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choke	nsubj
4	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 objects	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 objects	amod
7	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choke	obl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 choke	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 more	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 choke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	present · do-support	toddlers	more		small objects			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent more=Destination

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

They do not have any teeth yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	They	any teeth			yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 2

They do not like the taste of toys, so they spit them out too fast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 taste	det
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 toys	case
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taste	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spit	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 spit	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spit	nsubj
12	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spit	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 spit	compound:prt
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 fast	advmod
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 spit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	They	the taste of toys		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme
2	spit out	present	toys = toy	them = they	fast property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	taste			toys		nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They put things in their mouths to explore, and their airways are small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mouths	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouths	nmod:poss
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 explore	mark
8	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 small	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 small	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 airways	nmod:poss
12	airways	airway	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 small	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	They	things	things's mouths		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination
2	explore	to-infinitive	They not said here				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	things's airways			small property	tree rules

Option 4

They always eat too quickly at meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 meals	case
7	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They			meals		always, quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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