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title: Ben reckons a sharp knife is always more dangerous than a blunt one.… — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben reckons a sharp knife is always more dangerous than a blunt one. Right? Test 4 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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 4 · Kitchen and garden dangers

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Ben reckons a sharp knife is always more dangerous than a blunt one. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, sharp knife · **What happens:** reckon, be

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This is test 4 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben reckons a sharp knife is always more dangerous than a blunt one.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:1
# text = Ben reckons a sharp knife is always more dangerous than a blunt one.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a sharp knife |  |  |  |  | than a blunt one; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, a blunt knife slips and can cut you more easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:o1:1
# text = No, a blunt knife slips and can cut you more easily
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | present | a blunt knife |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cut** | can | a blunt knife *not said here* | you |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, blunt knives never cut skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:o2:1
# text = Yes, blunt knives never cut skin
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cut** | present | blunt knives | skin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material skin=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, blunt knives can't cut anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:o3:1
# text = No, blunt knives can't cut anything
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cut** | can | blunt knives | anything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material anything=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, sharp knives jump by themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t4:o4:1
# text = Yes, sharp knives jump by themselves
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | present | sharp knives |  |  |  |  | by knives *= knife* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Trajectory |

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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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