Test 10 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

Why would a hedgehog choose a bonfire heap to sleep in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: choose, sleep in · To what, where: bonfire heap

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 choose	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 choose	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedgehog	det
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choose	nsubj
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heap	det
7	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heap	compound
8	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choose	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heap	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 sleep	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	would	a hedgehog	a bonfire heap					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme
2	sleep in	to-infinitive	a hedgehog not said here	a bonfire heap not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

It wants to stay up and watch the fireworks

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stay	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 watch	cc
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fireworks	det
9	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	It		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay up not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	infinitive		the fireworks	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a warm, dry heap, good for winter sleep

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	7 heap	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heap	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 heap	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heap	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heap	amod
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heap	amod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	compound
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a warm dry heap					tree rules

Option 3

It likes the smell of smoke

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 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 likes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	It	the smell of smoke					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme
2	smell		smoke						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Hedgehogs love the heat from flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 flames	case
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Hedgehogs	the heat		flames			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus

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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