Test 12 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

nightlight's stuck right up against the curtain

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: stick · To what, where: nightlight, curtain

This is test 12 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	nightlight	nightlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 nightlight	case
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 nightlight	acl
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 stuck	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 curtain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 curtain	det
8	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		nightlight not said here		the curtain			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against curtain=Destination

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

Fine if the curtain is thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 thin	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curtain	det
4	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thin	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thin	cop
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the curtain					thin property	tree rules

Option 2

Only big lamps get hot enough to cause any problem with curtains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 lamps	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamps	amod
3	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cause	mark
8	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	advcl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 problem	det
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 curtains	case
12	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 problem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	big lamps					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	cause	to-infinitive	big lamps not said here	any problem				with curtains	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient

Option 3

Fine, nightlights never get warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nightlights	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	nightlights	nightlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Fine nightlights					warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Move it away, bulbs get hot and can start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Move	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
5	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Move	advcl
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 start	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 start	aux
10	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Move	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move away	imperative	you not said here	it	away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	present	bulbs		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	start	can	you not said here	a fire		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

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.

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