Test 3 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play
Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid. Why is that dangerous?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: want, make, be · To what, where: barbecue flames
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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: Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Leo | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flames | det |
| 8 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flames | compound |
| 9 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 make | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fluid | case |
| 12 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 fluid | amod |
| 13 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bigger | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Leo's dad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Leo's dad not said here | the barbecue flames | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flame=Product |
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: Why is that dangerous?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dangerous | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 dangerous | mark |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dangerous property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Lighter fluid makes the barbecue too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 fluid | amod |
| 2 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barbecue | det |
| 5 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 cold | advmod |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Lighter fluid | the barbecue | cold property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barbecue=Product |
Option 2
It makes the food taste sweet
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 | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 food | det |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taste | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the food | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste | present | the food not said here | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The fuel can flare up and burn him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fuel | det |
| 2 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flare | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 flare | aux |
| 4 | flare | flare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flare | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 burn | cc |
| 7 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flare | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flare up | can | the fuel | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn | infinitive | the fuel not said here | fuel | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
The barbecue will go out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barbecue | det |
| 2 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | future | the barbecue | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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