Test 5 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

Before opening a door in a fire drill, why do you feel it with the back of your hand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: open, feel · To what, where: door, fire drill

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 opening	mark
2	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 feel	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opening	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 drill	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drill	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drill	compound
8	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opening	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 opening	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 feel	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund	you not said here	a door		a fire drill			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in drill=Location
2	feel	present · do-support	you	door				with the back of your hand	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

To check that it is not locked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 locked	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 locked	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 locked	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 locked	advmod
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 check	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not lock	present · passive		it					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

To warm up your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 warm	compound:prt
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	to-infinitive		your hand					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

To clean your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 clean	mark
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive		your hand					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hot door means fire behind it, so keep it shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fire	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a hot door	fire		fire			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic
2	keep	infinitive	a hot door not said here	door				shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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