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# Exam question 2 · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a swallowed button battery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, swallow · **To what, where:** swallowed button battery

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a swallowed button battery?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | a swallowed button battery |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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It is dangerous only if bitten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:e2:o1:1
# text = It is dangerous only if bitten
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It may burn through the throat within about two hours and is an emergency

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:e2:o2:1
# text = It may burn through the throat within about two hours and is an emergency
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | may | It |  |  | the throat | hour |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through throat=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a emergency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It passes harmlessly in nearly all cases

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:e2:o3:1
# text = It passes harmlessly in nearly all cases
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	harmlessly	harmlessly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | It |  |  | all cases |  | harmlessly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in case=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It requires attention only the next day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:e2:o4:1
# text = It requires attention only the next day
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | It | attention |  |  | day |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attention=Precondition |

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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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