Test 2 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

"why can't you put water on an electric fire, water puts everything out" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: not put, put out · To what, where: water, electric fire, everything

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 put	advmod
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 put	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 fire	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fire	amod
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 puts	punct
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 puts	nsubj
14	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 put	parataxis
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 puts	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 puts	compound:prt
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 answer	punct
18	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 puts	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put in a quote	can	you	water		a electric fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme on fire=Destination
2	put out in a quote	present	water	everything					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent everything=Goal

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

Water turns into oil near plugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 oil	case
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 plugs	case
6	plugs	plug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Water			oil		near plugs	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into oil=Source near plug=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water carries electricity and could give a deadly shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 give	cc
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carries	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shock	det
8	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shock	amod
9	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Water	electricity					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
2	give	could	Water not said here	a deadly shock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme

Option 3

Water makes electric fires much bigger and hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fires	amod
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hotter	cc
8	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Water	electric fires				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 4

Electric fires are too cold for water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fires	amod
2	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cold	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Electric fires					for water; cold property	tree rules

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