--- title: remote's battery cover broke, battery's loose — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: remote's battery cover broke, battery's loose Test 16 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/t16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Babies, button batteries and magnets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets remote's battery cover broke, battery's loose **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** battery cover · **What happens:** break · **To what, where:** battery This is test 16 · ★ 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/#t16). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t16:1 # text = remote's battery cover broke, battery's loose 1 remote remote NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | remote's battery cover | battery | | | | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer battery=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Leave it, kids won't touch a remote anyway ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t16:o1:1 # text = Leave it, kids won't touch a remote anyway 1 Leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 10 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **not** **touch** | future | kids | a remote | | | | anyway *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remote=Co-Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Put the battery on the floor ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t16:o2:1 # text = Put the battery on the floor 1 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | the battery | | the floor | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme on floor=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} Give it to the baby to hold ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t16:o3:1 # text = Give it to the baby to hold 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | the baby | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to baby=Recipient | | 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Tape it shut or put it away from little ones ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t16:o4:1 # text = Tape it shut or put it away from little ones 1 Tape tape VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tape** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | shut *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it | | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | **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. 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