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Test 9 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests." Is that the whole story?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, fire · What happens: say, be · To what, where: whole story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
6	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bad	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bad	cop
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 forests	case
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bad	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	all fire					for forests; bad property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Is that the whole story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 story	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the whole story					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, no plant at all can survive a forest fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 survive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plant	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 survive	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 plant	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 survive	aux
8	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 survive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	can	no plant at all	a forest fire					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Circumstance

Option 2

Fire only helps forests in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helps	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Fire	forests			winter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary

Option 3

Forests cannot burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 burn	advmod
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	can	Forests						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some trees and seeds need fire to open and grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seeds	cc
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	conj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 open	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	some trees and seeds	fire					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme
2	open	to-infinitive	some trees and seeds not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	infinitive	some trees and seeds not said here						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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