Test 3 · Kitchen and garden dangers

What would happen if a toddler pulled the cable of an iron left on the board?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: toddler · What happens: happen, pull, leave, cable · To what, where: cable, iron, board

This is test 3 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 pulled	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toddler	det
6	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cable	det
9	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 iron	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 iron	det
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cable	nmod
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 iron	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 board	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 board	det
16	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull a condition, not said to happen	past	a toddler	the cable of a iron		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Theme
3	leave	participle		a iron not said here	the board	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on board=Location
4	cable			a iron		nom cable «communication transitive»: of=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

The iron would switch itself on and start steaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 iron	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 switch	aux
4	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 switch	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 switch	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 start	cc
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 switch	conj
9	steaming	steam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	switch on	would	the iron	iron	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	start	infinitive	the iron not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	steam	gerund	the iron not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The board would fold up safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 board	det
2	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fold	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fold	aux
4	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 fold	compound:prt
6	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 fold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold up	would	the board					safely property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The hot iron could fall and burn them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 iron	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 iron	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burn	cc
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fall	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	could	the hot iron						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	infinitive	the hot iron not said here	them = they					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, irons have no weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 irons	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	irons	iron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 weight	det
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing irons	no weight					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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