Test 9 · Kitchen and garden dangers

Which is true about a hot drink on the table?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	7 drink	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drink	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drink	amod
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a hot drink on the table; true property	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

Adding milk makes it unable to burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adding	obj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 burn	mark
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		milk		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	make	present	Adding	milk	unable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	burn	to-infinitive	milk not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Babies can't pull tablecloths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pull	advmod
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tablecloths	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pull	can	Babies	tablecloths					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablecloth=Theme

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

It should be kept away from the edge where little ones can reach

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 kept	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 reach	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reach	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 reach	aux
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 edge	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	should · passive		It		the edge		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from edge=Eventuality
2	reach	can	little ones						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is safe once you stop seeing steam

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 stop	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	advcl
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		safe property	tree rules
2	stop	present	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	see	gerund	you not said here	steam		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steam=Stimulus

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