Test 15 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

smoke alarm beeping cos battery low, can i just take it out

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smoke alarm, i · What happens: beep, take out · To what, where: battery

This is test 15 · ★ 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	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alarm	compound
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beeping	beep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 alarm	acl
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 battery	case
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beeping	obl
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 battery	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 alarm	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beep	gerund	smoke alarm not said here					cos battery	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take out	can	i	battery					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Only put it back in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put back	imperative	you not said here	it			winter		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it's not needed at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 needed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needed	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 needed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 needed	advmod
6	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		it			night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Yes, take it out, the beeping is annoying and it's fine without

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 take	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 annoying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beeping	det
8	beeping	beeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 annoying	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 annoying	cop
10	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fine	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 annoying	conj
15	without	without	ADP	_	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take out	imperative	you not said here	it		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	the beeping		annoying property	tree rules
3	is	present	the beeping not said here		fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, tell an adult to change the battery, alarms save lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 change	mark
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 battery	det
9	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
11	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 save	nsubj
12	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the battery		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient
3	save	present	alarms	lives		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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