Test 5 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Why is it a bad idea to dry socks on top of a portable heater?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, dry · To what, where: bad idea, socks, top

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dry	mark
8	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dry	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dry	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 heater	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 heater	det
14	portable	portable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heater	amod
15	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	dry	to-infinitive		socks		top of a portable heater			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sock=Result

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

The heater will get too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heater	det
2	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	the heater					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Covering the heater can make it catch fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 make	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heater	det
3	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Covering	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cover	gerund		the heater	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heater=Destination
2	make	can	Covering	heater	tree rules
3	catch	infinitive	heater not said here	fire	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The socks will smell of smoke only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 socks	det
2	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	4 smell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	future	the socks					of smoke	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of smoke=Theme

Option 4

The socks will shrink too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 socks	det
2	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shrink	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrink	aux
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	future	the socks	much					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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