Test 5 · Burns, sunburn and stings

Why is a cup of tea dangerous for a toddler even if it's not boiling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cup · What happens: be, not boil · To what, where: cup

This is test 5 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine 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	4 cup	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cup	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cup	det
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boiling	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tea	case
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cup	nmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tea	amod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 toddler	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toddler	det
10	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dangerous	obl
11	even	even	ADV	_	16 boiling	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 boiling	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boiling	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boiling	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 boiling	advmod
16	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 boiling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a cup				of tea	tree rules
2	not boil	present · progressive	a cup						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Tea is poisonous to toddlers if they drink it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 toddlers	case
5	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 drink	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drink	nsubj
8	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tea					to toddlers; poisonous property	tree rules
2	drink a condition, not said to happen	present	toddlers = toddler	Tea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It makes them hyperactive and they fall

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	hyperactive	hyperactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fall	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fall	nsubj
7	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	them = they				hyperactive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
2	fall	present	they						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It can still scald thin skin badly

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	4 scald	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scald	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 scald	advmod
4	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scald	obj
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scald	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	can	It	thin skin			still	badly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument skin=Patient

Option 4

It isn't, tea that has stopped boiling is always safe

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 tea	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tea	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tea	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tea	punct
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safe	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stopped	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stopped	aux
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tea	acl:relcl
9	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	xcomp
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	tea		tree rules
2	stop	present · perfect	tea	boiling		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	tea		always, safe property	tree rules

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