Exam question 1 · Hiking and camping safely

Identify the principal hazard of using a stove or heater inside a tent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal hazard · What happens: identify, use · To what, where: principal hazard, stove, tent

This is exam question 1 of lesson 230 «Hiking and camping safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hazard	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hazard	amod
4	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 using	mark
6	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hazard	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 heater	cc
10	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stove	conj
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 tent	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tent	det
13	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal hazard					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hazard=Theme
2	use	gerund	the principal hazard not said here	a stove or heater		a tent			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stove=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 · ← Mova's choice

The smoke attracts large numbers of biting insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attracts	nsubj
3	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 numbers	amod
5	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attracts	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 insects	case
7	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 insects	amod
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 numbers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	the smoke	large numbers of biting insects					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	bite	gerund							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fire and carbon monoxide, a poison gas without smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 monoxide	cc
3	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monoxide	compound
4	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gas	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gas	det
7	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	compound
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fire	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 smell	case
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gas	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The food is cooked too quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooked	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooked	aux:pass
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 cooked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · passive		the food				quickly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The tent becomes too bright for its occupants to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tent	det
2	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 becomes	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 occupants	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 occupants	nmod:poss
8	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bright	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 occupants	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the tent					bright property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the tent not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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