Test 17 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

heard a baby at a party swallowed a Lego piece n went totally blue, the ambulance came in like 10 seconds

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lego piece n, ambulance · What happens: hear, swallow, go, come in · To what, where: baby, party

This is test 17 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 party	det
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallowed	obl
7	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 n	det
9	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 n	compound
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 n	compound
11	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallowed	ccomp
13	totally	totally	ADV	_	14 blue	advmod
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ambulance	det
17	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 seconds	case
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 seconds	nummod
22	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		a baby				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
2	swallow	past			a party			tree rules
3	go	past	a Lego piece n				blue property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come in	past	the ambulance			second		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is true, so babies should never have any toys

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 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	_	9 have	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 toys	det
11	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	not have	should	babies	any toys					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Small things can choke babies, so keep toys away; the 10 seconds part is likely exaggerated

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choke	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 choke	aux
4	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choke	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 choke	parataxis
9	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 choke	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 part	det
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 seconds	nummod
14	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 part	compound
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 exaggerated	aux:pass
17	likely	likely	ADV	_	18 exaggerated	advmod
18	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 choke	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choke	can	Small things	babies		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baby=Destination
2	keep away	infinitive		toys	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
3	exaggerate	present · passive		the seconds part	likely property	tree rules

Option 3

Babies can swallow anything safely because their throats are made for it, so it cannot be true

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swallow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 swallow	obj
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 swallow	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 throats	nmod:poss
8	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 swallow	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 true	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 true	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 true	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 true	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	can	Babies	anything	safely property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	make	present · passive		Babies's throats	for it	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for it=Asset
3	not is	can	it		true property	tree rules

Option 4

Only Lego is dangerous, other small toys are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advmod
2	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fine	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lego					dangerous property	tree rules
2	is	present	dangerous other small toys					fine property	tree rules

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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