Test 14 · ★ · Smells that warn

kitchen smells like rotten eggs, mum's out

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kitchen, mum · What happens: smell, be

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells 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	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eggs	amod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smells	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 out	punct
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 out	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 out	cop
9	out	out	ADV	_	2 smells	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	kitchen					like rotten eggs	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	mum					out property	tree rules

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

Turn on the lights to look for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 lights	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turn	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Turn	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here			the lights			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on light=Trajectory
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					for it	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 2

Light a candle to cover the smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 candle	det
3	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Light	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cover	mark
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Light	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smell	det
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	to-infinitive		the smell					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smell=Destination

Option 3

Open the oven to check it, then ring mum at work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oven	det
3	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Open	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Open	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 check	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ring	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ring	advmod
9	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Open	conj
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 work	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	the oven			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oven=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here	oven			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	ring	infinitive	you not said here	mum	work	then	tree rules

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

Get out and call for help from outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 call	cc
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 help	case
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 outside	case
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	infinitive	you not said here					for help	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent for help=Asset from outside=Source

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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