Test 9 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

Which is true about matches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 matches	case
5	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about matches; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are tools for grown-ups, and a fire can start very fast

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tools	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tools	cop
3	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tools	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 start	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 start	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 start	aux
13	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tools	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 fast	advmod
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	tools	for grown ups	tree rules
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	start	can	a fire		fast property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

They are safe little toys for children if you are very careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 toys	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 toys	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toys	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toys	amod
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 toys	nmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 careful	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 careful	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 careful	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 careful	advmod
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toys	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	safe little toys				for children	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					careful property	tree rules

Option 3

Only wooden matches can start fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 matches	advmod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 matches	amod
3	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	wooden matches	fires					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 4

Matches cannot start fires indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 start	advmod
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	obj
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	4 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not start	can	Matches	fires				indoors property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

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