Test 8 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

What would happen if you took away the fuel from a campfire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, take away · To what, where: fuel, campfire

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fuel	det
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 campfire	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 campfire	det
12	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the fuel		a campfire			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme from campfire=Initial_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

It would get bigger

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It would turn into smoke only

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	into	into	ADP	_	5 smoke	case
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			smoke			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into smoke=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would keep burning forever on the air alone

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 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 burning	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burning	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It					alone property	tree rules
2	burn	gerund				the air		forever property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would go out when the fuel already burning is used up

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	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 used	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fuel	det
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	nsubj:pass
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 burning	advmod
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fuel	acl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 used	aux:pass
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 go	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 used	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	would	It		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund	the fuel not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use up	present · passive		the fuel		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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