Test 8 · ★ · Smells that warn

Why do fire safety lessons say to get out first and phone afterwards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: safety lessons · What happens: do, say, get out · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safety	compound
4	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lessons	compound
5	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	xcomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 get	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 phone	cc
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	conj
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	safety lessons not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	safety lessons		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get out	to-infinitive	safety lessons not said here	afterwards, first, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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

Calls from inside go to the wrong place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 inside	case
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 go	obl
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	Calls			the wrong place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial_Location to place=Destination

Option 2

The fire stops while you are on the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 phone	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 phone	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 phone	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 phone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the fire						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present	you			the phone			tree rules

Option 3

Phones only work outdoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	3 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Phones					outdoors property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Staying in to call wastes precious time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Staying	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 call	mark
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Staying	advcl
5	wastes	waste	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obj
6	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	to-infinitive		wastes			time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent waste=Recipient

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