Test 7 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

What could happen if a scarf caught on a slide while a child went down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: happen, catch, go down · To what, where: scarf, slide

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 scarf	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scarf	det
6	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 scarf	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 slide	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 slide	det
10	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	could		a scarf			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	participle		a scarf not said here	a slide		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	a child			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

The slide would go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slide	det
2	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the slide					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The scarf would keep her warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scarf	det
2	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the scarf	her = she				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could pull tight around the child's neck

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 pull	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pull	xcomp
5	around	around	ADP	_	9 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neck	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 child	case
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	could	It			the child's neck		tight property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, scarves just slip off the slide on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 scarves	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slip	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 slip	advmod
5	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 slide	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slide	det
8	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slip	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	present	Nothing scarves	the slide		scarves's own			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent slide=Patient

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