Test 16 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

did u hear some guy poured petrol on a campfire to get it going and it went WHOOSH and burnt his eyebrows off? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, guy, petrol · What happens: hear, pour, get, go, burnt off · To what, where: guy, petrol, campfire, WHOOSH, eyebrows

This is test 16 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 guy	det
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 guy	acl
7	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 campfire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 campfire	det
10	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 poured	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 get	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
18	WHOOSH	whoosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burnt	cc
20	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyebrows	nmod:poss
22	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burnt	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	20 burnt	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 lesson	punct
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lesson	amod
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burnt	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	some guy			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus
2	pour	participle	some guy not said here	petrol	a campfire		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Patient
3	get	to-infinitive	some guy not said here	petrol			tree rules
4	go	gerund	petrol not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	petrol	WHOOSH			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whoosh=Theme
6	burnt off	past	petrol not said here	his eyebrows		real lesson obl	tree rules

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

Stand back a step when you pour it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stand	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 step	det
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl:unmarked
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pour	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pour	nsubj
7	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pour	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand back	imperative	you not said here	a step					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pour	present	you	step					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never put petrol or fuel on a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 put	advmod
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 fuel	cc
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 petrol	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	imperative	you not said here	petrol or fuel		a fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Theme on fire=Destination

Option 3

Use only a little petrol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 petrol	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 petrol	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 petrol	amod
5	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a little petrol					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Patient

Option 4

Petrol is fine on small fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 fires	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fires	amod
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Petrol			small fires		fine property	tree rules

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