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Test 10 · ★★★ · The candle and what burning is

Your little cousin asks how a trick candle "knows" to relight. Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little cousin, trick candle · What happens: ask, know, relight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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 little cousin asks how a trick candle "knows" to relight.

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	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 knows	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 candle	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 candle	compound
8	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 relight	mark
13	relight	relight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knows	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Your little cousin						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	a trick candle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	relight	to-infinitive	a trick candle not said here						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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					magic property	tree rules

Option 2

It listens for clapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listens	nsubj
2	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 clapping	case
4	clapping	clapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	It					for clapping	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clapping=Theme

Option 3

It has a tiny brain in the wax that tells it when the party is not over

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brain	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brain	amod
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wax	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wax	det
8	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brain	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wax	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 over	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 party	det
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 over	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 over	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 over	advmod
17	over	over	ADV	_	10 tells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a tiny brain		the wax			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	present	the wax		brain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	not is	present	the party					over property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It doesn't know; hot metal powder in the wick catches fire again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 powder	punct
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 powder	amod
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 powder	compound
8	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catches	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wick	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wick	det
11	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 powder	nmod
12	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catches	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	4 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	It				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch	present	hot metal powder in the wick	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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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