Test 7 · ★★★ · The candle and what burning is
What would happen to a candle under a very small jar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: small jar
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 candle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 candle | det |
| 6 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 jar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 jar | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 small | advmod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jar | amod |
| 11 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | a small jar | to a candle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under jar=Location |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It would go out very quickly
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 go | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | would | It | out, quickly property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It would burn on forever and ever
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 burn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 burn | aux |
| 3 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 burn | compound:prt |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 burn | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ever | cc |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 forever | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn on | would | It | forever property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It would turn blue and stay lit
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 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turn | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stay | cc |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 7 | lit | lit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | It | blue property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | lit property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It would grow taller and brighter
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 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brighter | cc |
| 6 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 taller | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | It | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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