Test 2 · ★ · Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom

Why do firefighters prefer you to tell them about a pet rather than go back in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: firefighters · What happens: prefer, tell, go back · To what, where: you, firefighters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	4 prefer	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prefer	aux
3	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prefer	nsubj
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 prefer	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prefer	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 pet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pet	det
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
12	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	14 go	cc
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 rather	fixed
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	14 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 prefer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	present · do-support	firefighters	you			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	firefighters not said here		firefighters = firefighter	about a pet	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about pet=Topic
3	go back	infinitive	firefighters not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

They do not like people inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	They	people				inside property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pets always escape by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	present	Pets					by Pets = pet; always property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They have gear to go in, and going back in kills people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gear	acl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 have	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 kills	case
12	kills	kill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 going	obl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 going	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	They	gear		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient
2	go in	to-infinitive	They not said here	gear not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go back	gerund	They not said here		kills	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Going back in is only dangerous at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dangerous	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
3	in	in	ADV	_	1 Going	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 dangerous	advmod
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	gerund							vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	Going				night	dangerous property	tree rules

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