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description: In a film a toddler pulls the button eyes off a teddy. Why don't real baby toys allow this? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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 10 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

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In a film a toddler pulls the button eyes off a teddy. Why don't real baby toys allow this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** toddler, real baby toys · **What happens:** pull, not allow · **To what, where:** button eyes, film, this

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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/7-toys-and-lego/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a film a toddler pulls the button eyes off a teddy.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:1
# text = In a film a toddler pulls the button eyes off a teddy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teddy	teddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | a toddler | the button eyes |  | a film |  | off a teddy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off teddy=Initial\_Location |

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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:* Why don't real baby toys allow this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:2
# text = Why don't real baby toys allow this?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · do-support | real baby toys | this |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

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

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Their eyes are locked on from inside, so they can't come off and be swallowed

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:o1:1
# text = Their eyes are locked on from inside, so they can't come off and be swallowed
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock on** | present · passive |  | Their eyes |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **come off** | can | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow** | infinitive · passive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Button eyes are too expensive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:o2:1
# text = Button eyes are too expensive
1	Button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Button eyes |  |  |  |  | expensive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Real teddies have no eyes at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:o3:1
# text = Real teddies have no eyes at all
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teddies	teddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Real teddies | no eyes |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Babies are scared of eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t10:o4:1
# text = Babies are scared of eyes
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Babies |  |  |  |  | of eyes; scared *property* | tree rules |

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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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