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title: Why do toddlers choke on small objects more than older children? — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do toddlers choke on small objects more than older children? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

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Why do toddlers choke on small objects more than older children?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** toddlers · **What happens:** choke · **To what, where:** more, small objects

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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/302-toys-and-board-games/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t10:1
# text = Why do toddlers choke on small objects more than older children?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | present · do-support | toddlers | more |  | small objects |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent more=Destination |

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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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They do not have any teeth yet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t10:o1:1
# text = They do not have any teeth yet
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | They | any teeth |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They do not like the taste of toys, so they spit them out too fast

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t10:o2:1
# text = They do not like the taste of toys, so they spit them out too fast
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | They | the taste of toys |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme |
| 2 | **spit out** | present | toys *= toy* | them *= they* |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **taste** |  |  | toys |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They put things in their mouths to explore, and their airways are small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t10:o3:1
# text = They put things in their mouths to explore, and their airways are small
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	airways	airway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | They | things |  | things's mouths |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in mouth=Destination |
| 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | things's airways |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They always eat too quickly at meals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t10:o4:1
# text = They always eat too quickly at meals
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | They |  |  | meals |  | always, quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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