Test 14 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

Why must you never pour fuel on a campfire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not pour · To what, where: fuel, campfire

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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	5 pour	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pour	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pour	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 pour	advmod
5	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pour	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 campfire	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 campfire	det
9	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pour	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pour	must	you	fuel		a campfire			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=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

It wastes the fuel

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 fuel	det
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wastes	obj

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

Option 2

It makes too much smoke

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smoke	amod
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	much smoke					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smoke=Product

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

The flames can burst up and burn you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burst	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	aux
4	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 burst	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 burn	cc
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burst	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst up	can	the flames						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	infinitive	the flames not said here	you					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4

It puts the fire out

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 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 puts	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	present	It	the fire					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal

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