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Test 1 · ★★★ · The candle and what burning is

Your friend blows out a candle, a grown-up brings a match to the smoke, and the candle relights. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, grown up, candle · What happens: blow out, grow, bring, relight · To what, where: candle, match, smoke

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 11 «The candle and what burning is» of the chemistry 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

Sentence 1: Your friend blows out a candle, a grown-up brings a match to the smoke, and the candle relights.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	nsubj
3	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 blows	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 candle	det
6	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brings	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 up	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 up	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brings	nsubj
12	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blows	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 match	det
14	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brings	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 smoke	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 smoke	det
17	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brings	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 relights	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 relights	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 candle	det
21	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 relights	nsubj
22	relights	relight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blows	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	present	Your friend	a candle					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	present	a grown up	a match		the smoke			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent match=Theme to smoke=Destination
4	relight	present	the candle						tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The candle was never really out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 out	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the candle					out property	tree rules

Option 2

Smoke is made of pure oxygen, which bursts into flame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 oxygen	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 oxygen	amod
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bursts	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bursts	nsubj
9	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 oxygen	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 flame	case
11	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bursts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Smoke				of pure oxygen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	burst	present	pure oxygen			flame			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The smoke still holds wax gas, which catches fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 holds	advmod
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gas	compound
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 catches	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 catches	nsubj
9	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gas	acl:relcl
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the smoke	wax gas			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme
2	catch	present	wax gas	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 4

The match touched the wick by accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 match	det
2	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wick	det
5	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 accident	case
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	the match	the wick				by accident	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wick=Experiencer by accident=Theme

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