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title: Mum says the hot tap's too hot for baby's bath, why tho — Thinking it through: the science behin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum says the hot tap's too hot for baby's bath, why tho Test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 16 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

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Mum says the hot tap's too hot for baby's bath, why tho

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** hot tap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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/40-home-safety-reasoning/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t16:1
# text = Mum says the hot tap's too hot for baby's bath, why tho
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	conj	_	_
15	tho	tho	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | the hot tap |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tap=Topic |

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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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Babies like cold baths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t16:o1:1
# text = Babies like cold baths
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tap might break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t16:o2:1
# text = The tap might break
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | might | the tap |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Hot water can scald a baby in seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t16:o3:1
# text = Hot water can scald a baby in seconds
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scald** | can | Hot water | a baby |  |  | second |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hot water makes them sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t16:o4:1
# text = Hot water makes them sleepy
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Hot water | them *= they* |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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