Test 18 · ★ · Smells that warn

my mate says you'd smell carbon monoxide straight away, it smells like burning

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: say, smell, burn · To what, where: carbon monoxide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 smell	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smell	aux
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 monoxide	compound
8	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 smell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 smells	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 smells	nsubj
13	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 burning	mark
15	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 smells	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	would	you	carbon monoxide	away property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monoxide=Stimulus
3	smell	present	mate			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	gerund	mate not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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

He is right, it smells like rotten eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smells	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smells	nsubj
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smells	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That is false; carbon monoxide has no smell, which is why homes need alarms

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 false	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 false	cop
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monoxide	compound
6	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 false	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 smell	det
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 why	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 smell	acl:relcl
14	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 need	nsubj
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	advcl:relcl
16	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		false property	tree rules
2	have	present	carbon monoxide	no smell		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
3	is	present	no smell		why property	tree rules
4	need	present	homes	alarms		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot alarm=Theme

Option 3

He is right, it smells like smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smells	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smells	nsubj
6	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 smoke	case
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	smell	present	it					like smoke	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He is right, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 night	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 night	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He				night	right property	tree rules

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