Test 1 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Why might a lamp start a fire if pushed against a curtain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lamp · What happens: start, push · To what, where: fire

This is test 1 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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	5 start	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	nsubj
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 pushed	mark
9	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 start	advcl
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 curtain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 curtain	det
12	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	might	a lamp	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
2	push a condition, not said to happen	participle	a lamp not said here					against a curtain	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against curtain=Theme

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

Lamps give off sparks whenever their shade is touched by cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
5	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	9 touched	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shade	nmod:poss
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 touched	aux:pass
9	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 give	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 cloth	case
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give off	present	Lamps	sparks	vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source spark=Theme
2	touch	present · passive	cloth	Lamps's shade	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	shade		Lamps = lamp		nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Curtains make electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Curtains	electricity					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The hot bulb can heat the fabric until it burns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulb	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bulb	amod
3	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heat	aux
5	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fabric	det
7	fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 burns	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	can	the hot bulb	the fabric					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fabric=Patient
2	burn	present	bulb						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Curtains make the bulb explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bulb	det
4	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Curtains	the bulb					tree rules
2	explode	infinitive	the bulb not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/t1/