Test 7 · Sounds that warn

If a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, why can you not just sniff the air to check?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monoxide alarm, you · What happens: go off, not sniff, check · To what, where: air

This is test 7 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 goes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 alarm	det
3	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monoxide	compound
4	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarm	compound
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sniff	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 goes	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sniff	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sniff	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sniff	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sniff	advmod
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 sniff	advmod
14	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sniff	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 check	mark
18	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 air	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 sniff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go off a condition, not said to happen	present	a monoxide alarm		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	not sniff	can	you	the air	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	check	to-infinitive	you not said here	the air not said here	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The gas has no smell at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gas	det
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the gas	no smell		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient

Option 2

Your nose stops working near alarms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nose	nmod:poss
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 alarms	case
6	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Your nose						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	Your nose not said here			alarms			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The gas only smells in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gas	det
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smells	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 smells	advmod
4	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	the gas				morning		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The gas smells just like flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gas	det
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 flowers	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	the gas					like flowers	vn smell_emission-43.3 «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.

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