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title: Which of these is the most dangerous for a toddler to swallow? — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these is the most dangerous for a toddler to swallow? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

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Which of these is the most dangerous for a toddler to swallow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, swallow

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t1:1
# text = Which of these is the most dangerous for a toddler to swallow?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for a toddler; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A small piece of banana

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t1:o1:1
# text = A small piece of banana
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A sip of warm milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t1:o2:1
# text = A sip of warm milk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** |  |  | warm milk |  |  |  |  | nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A soft crumb of bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t1:o3:1
# text = A soft crumb of bread
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A button battery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t1:o4:1
# text = A button battery
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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