Test 9 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

Why is a playground with rubber matting safer than one with concrete?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: playground · What happens: mat · To what, where: one

This is test 9 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	7 matting	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matting	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 playground	det
4	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matting	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 rubber	case
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playground	nmod
7	matting	mat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 one	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 safer	fixed
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 matting	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 concrete	case
12	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matting	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 matting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mat	present · progressive	a playground with rubber	one				with concrete	tree rules

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 right answer

A fall onto rubber is softer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fall	det
2	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 softer	nsubj
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 rubber	case
4	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 softer	cop
6	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a fall onto rubber					soft property	tree rules

Option 2

Concrete is too cold to play on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Concrete					cold property	tree rules
2	play on	to-infinitive	Concrete not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Rubber stops children from climbing high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 climbing	mark
5	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 climbing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Rubber	children					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality child=Eventuality
2	climb	gerund	Rubber not said here					high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rubber makes the frames lower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frames	det
4	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lower	nsubj
5	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rubber						tree rules
2	lower	present	the frames						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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