Test 16 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

Mum says the hot tap's too hot for baby's bath, why tho

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: say · To what, where: hot tap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tap	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tap	amod
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tap	case
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tap	amod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 bath	case
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bath	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 baby	case
12	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hot	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 says	conj
15	tho	tho	ADV	_	14 why	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum	the hot tap					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tap=Topic

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

Babies like cold baths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 baths	case
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 baths	amod
4	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Babies	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The tap might break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	might	the tap						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hot water can scald a baby in seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scald	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scald	aux
4	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scald	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 seconds	case
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scald	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	can	Hot water	a baby			second		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 4

Hot water makes them sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Hot water	them = they				sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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