Exam question 3 · Home alone, keys and garden play

Whereas a barbecue is lit and the fire is slow to burn, determine the conduct required in respect of liquid fuel.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fire, you · What happens: lit, be, burn, determine, require, respect · To what, where: barbecue, conduct, respect, liquid fuel

This is exam question 3 of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 lit	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barbecue	det
3	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lit	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	aux:pass
5	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 determine	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slow	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slow	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slow	cop
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lit	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 burn	mark
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 slow	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lit	punct
14	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 conduct	det
16	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 determine	obj
17	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 conduct	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 respect	case
19	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 required	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fuel	case
21	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fuel	amod
22	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 respect	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lit	present · passive		a barbecue			tree rules
2	is	present	the fire			slow property	tree rules
3	burn	to-infinitive	the fire not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	determine	imperative	you not said here	the conduct			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
5	require	participle		the conduct not said here	respect of liquid fuel		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	respect			liquid fuel			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

It is never squirted on, as it flares up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 squirted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squirted	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 squirted	advmod
4	squirted	squirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 squirted	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flares	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 flares	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flares	nsubj
9	flares	flare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squirted	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 flares	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not squirt on	present · passive		It					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	flare up	present	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is squirted on lightly to revive the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squirted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 squirted	aux:pass
3	squirted	squirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 lightly	case
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	3 squirted	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 revive	mark
7	revive	revive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 squirted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 revive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squirt	present · passive		It					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on lightly=Destination
2	revive	to-infinitive		the fire					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient

Option 3

It is poured on only when the flames are low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poured	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	aux:pass
3	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 low	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 low	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 low	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flames	det
8	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 low	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 low	cop
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poured	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	present · passive		It					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present	the flames					low property	tree rules

Option 4

It is sprayed on from a distance of one metre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprayed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sprayed	aux:pass
3	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 sprayed	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 distance	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprayed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 metre	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 metre	nummod
10	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 distance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray on	present · passive		It				from a distance of one metre	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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