Test 14 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

candle on my shelf, leaving it on while i sleep

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: candle, i · What happens: leave on, sleep · To what, where: shelf

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 shelf	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shelf	nmod:poss
4	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 candle	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaving	punct
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leaving	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	6 leaving	compound:prt
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 sleep	mark
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nsubj
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leaving	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave on	gerund	candle on my shelf	shelf					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sleep	present	i						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Move it next to the curtain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Move	obj
3	next	next	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 curtain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 curtain	det
6	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	it		the curtain		next property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to curtain=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only leave it if it's small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 leave	advmod
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 small	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it					small property	tree rules

Option 3

Leave it, candles go out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go out	present	candles					alone, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blow it out, it can set things on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Blow	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Blow	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 set	aux
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Blow	conj
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 set	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	imperative	you not said here	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	set	can	it	things		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on fire=Destination

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