Test 5 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

Why do builders and firefighters on ladders also use three points of contact?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: builders · What happens: do, use, point · To what, where: three points, contact

This is test 5 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 use	advcl
3	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 firefighters	cc
5	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 builders	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 ladders	case
7	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 builders	nmod
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 use	advmod
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 points	nummod
11	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 contact	case
13	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 points	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	builders on ladders and firefighters not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	builders on ladders and firefighters	three points of contact	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient
3	point			contact	nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

So they can carry two buckets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 buckets	nummod
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	they	two buckets					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So they still hold on if one hand or foot slips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 hold	compound:prt
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 slips	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hand	nummod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slips	compound
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 foot	cc
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	conj
11	slips	slip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	present	they				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is only a habit with no reason behind it at all

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 habit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 habit	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 habit	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 habit	det
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 habit	nmod
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reason	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 habit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a habit		all		with no reason behind reason	tree rules

Option 4

Because ladders have three legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ladders	three legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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