Test 7 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

«just chuck the leaves on the bonfire and light it, who cares» Why should someone check first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, someone · What happens: chuck, care, check · To what, where: leaves, bonfire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 chuck	advmod
3	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuck	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bonfire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bonfire	det
8	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuck	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 light	cc
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bonfire	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chuck	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cares	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cares	nsubj
14	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chuck	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 cares	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 check	advmod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 check	aux
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 check	nsubj
19	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chuck	parataxis
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 check	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the leaves	the bonfire and light		tree rules
2	care in a quote	present					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	check	should	someone			first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

Leaves are against the law to burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 law	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 burn	mark
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Leaves					against the law	tree rules
2	burn	to-infinitive							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A hedgehog may be sleeping in the pile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hedgehog	det
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeping	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pile	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pile	det
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	may · progressive	a hedgehog			the pile			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pile=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Wet leaves make the fire explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wet leaves	the fire					tree rules
2	explode	infinitive	the fire not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Spiders will come out and bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
6	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	future	Spiders					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	bite	present	Spiders not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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