Test 15 · ★ · Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom

Why must a candle never be left burning when you leave the room?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not leave, burn, leave · To what, where: room

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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	7 left	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 candle	det
4	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 must	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 left	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 left	xcomp
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 leave	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 leave	nsubj
11	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 burning	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not leave	must · passive			tree rules
2	burn	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	present	you	the room	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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

Candles go out by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	Candles					by Candles = candle; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Smoke alarms put candles out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alarms	compound
2	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	3 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	Smoke alarms	candles				out property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent candle=Goal

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can set things on fire while nobody is watching

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	3 set	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 watching	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 watching	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watching	aux
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 set	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	can	It	things		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on fire=Destination
2	watch	present · progressive	nobody						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It wastes the candle

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 wastes	nsubj
2	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candle	det
4	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present	It	the candle					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument candle=Patient

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