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Test 1 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

A girl in Dublin falls asleep with a candle burning on her shelf. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, candle · What happens: fall, burn, happen · To what, where: shelf

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday 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: A girl in Dublin falls asleep with a candle burning on her shelf.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 falls	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 candle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 candle	det
9	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	obl
10	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 candle	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shelf	nmod:poss
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burning	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a girl in Dublin					with a candle; asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	gerund	a candle not said here			girl's shelf			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=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.

Sentence 2: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, candles are only dangerous outdoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 candles	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 dangerous	advmod
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	6 dangerous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing candles					dangerous, outdoors property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The candle could set things alight and start a house fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obj
6	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 start	cc
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	could	the candle	things				alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result
2	start	infinitive	the candle not said here	a house fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 3

The room just gets too warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 gets	advmod
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 warm	advmod
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gets	xcomp

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The candle goes out by itself as soon as she sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 goes	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 goes	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 goes	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 sleeps	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleeps	nsubj
11	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soon	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	the candle					by candle; soon property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present	she						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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