Test 4 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

Why does a closed bedroom door help in a house fire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, close, help · To what, where: closed bedroom door, house fire

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 door	det
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 door	amod
5	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 fire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	a closed bedroom door		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality
2	close	participle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	help	present		a house fire	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

Fire cannot burn painted doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 burn	advmod
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 doors	amod
6	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	can	Fire	painted doors					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It slows the smoke and flames from coming in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flames	cc
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smoke	conj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 coming	mark
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slows	advcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	It	the smoke and flames					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent smoke=Patient
2	come in	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the fire go out by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the fire				by fire	tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	the fire not said here						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It makes the room hotter so all the smoke rises up and away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 rises	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 smoke	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smoke	det
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rises	nsubj
10	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 rises	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 away	cc
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the room				hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material room=Product
2	rise up	present	all smoke						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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