Test 7 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

Why should hair straighteners never be left on near a towel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not leave · To what, where: hair straighteners, towel

This is test 7 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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	7 left	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 straighteners	compound
4	straighteners	straightener	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj:pass
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 left	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 towel	case
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 towel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 towel	det
11	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	should · passive		hair straighteners		a towel			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on towel=Location

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 can burn the towel and start a fire

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 burn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 towel	det
5	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 start	cc
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 burn	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can	They	the towel					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent towel=Theme
2	start	infinitive	They not said here	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 2

Towels make straighteners go cold and stop working properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straighteners	straightener	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Towels	straighteners		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	straighteners not said here		cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	Towels not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	work	gerund	Towels not said here		properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They only work near water

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 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They			water			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The towel will straighten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 towel	det
2	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 straighten	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 straighten	aux
4	straighten	straighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

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