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Test 7 · Famous discoveries told as stories

Miners long ago lit their way with open flames. Why was that so dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Miners · What happens: light, be · To what, where: way

This is test 7 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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: Miners long ago lit their way with open flames.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miners	miner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lit	nsubj
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ago	advmod
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 lit	advmod
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flames	case
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flames	amod
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lit	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	Miners	Miners's way				with open flames; ago property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product with flame=Material

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: Why was that so dangerous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dangerous	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 dangerous	mark
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						dangerous property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Open flames made the coal disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flames	amod
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coal	det
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Open flames	the coal					tree rules
2	disappear	present	the coal not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The light scared the pit ponies away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nsubj
3	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pit	det
5	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ponies	nsubj
6	ponies	pony	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 ponies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	the light						tree rules
2	pony away	present	the pit					away property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The flame could set off gas in the mine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mine	det
9	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	could	the flame	gas		the mine			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition gas=Patient

Option 4

The flames made the air too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the flames	the air				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product

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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