Test 5 · ★ · Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel…
Children on a tenth-floor balcony drop a tiny stone «just for fun». What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Children · What happens: drop, be · To what, where: tiny stone
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Children on a tenth-floor balcony drop a tiny stone «just for fun».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 balcony | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 balcony | det |
| 4 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 floor | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tenth | punct |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 balcony | compound |
| 7 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Children | nmod |
| 8 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drop | obj |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 fun | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 fun | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fun | case |
| 15 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stone | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 fun | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Children on a floor balcony | a tiny stone and fun | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It only matters if they aim at someone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 matters | advmod |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 aim | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aim | nsubj |
| 6 | aim | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 matters | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 aim | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | It | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | aim a condition, not said to happen | present | they | someone | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
It will slow down and float down gently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slow | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slow | aux |
| 3 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 slow | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 float | cc |
| 6 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slow | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 float | compound:prt |
| 8 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 6 float | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow down | future | It | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | float down | infinitive | gently property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It is far too small to hurt anyone, even from that height
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 small | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 small | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hurt | mark |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 small | advcl |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 hurt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 height | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 height | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 height | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 height | det |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | far, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Falling from that height it can badly hurt someone below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 height | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 height | det |
| 4 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Falling | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 9 someone | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | that height | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | hurt | can | height | someone | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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