Test 3 · ★ · Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel…

Why is it a bad idea to touch frozen metal with your tongue on a very cold day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, touch, freeze · To what, where: bad idea, frozen metal

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 322 «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 touch	mark
8	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	csubj
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 metal	amod
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 tongue	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 cold	advmod
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bad idea			tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	frozen metal	day	with your tongue	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent metal=Theme with tongue=Instrument
3	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Metal tastes bad when it is frozen and makes your tongue go numb for a day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tastes	nsubj
2	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tastes	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 frozen	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 frozen	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 frozen	aux:pass
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tastes	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 makes	cc
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tastes	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tongue	nmod:poss
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
13	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 numb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Metal		bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	freeze	present · passive		Metal		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	make	present	Metal not said here	your tongue		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	your tongue not said here		numb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The wet skin freezes to the metal and tears when you pull away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skin	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skin	amod
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freezes	nsubj
4	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 metal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 metal	det
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freezes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tears	cc
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 metal	conj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pull	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 pull	nsubj
12	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezes	advcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	the wet skin					to the metal and tears	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pull away	present	you					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You would get a cold from the metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 metal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 metal	det
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	a cold		the metal			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from metal=Source

Option 4

Your tongue would melt the metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 metal	det
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	Your tongue	the metal					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient metal=Result

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