Test 18 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

my cousin said a campfire from last week was still hot and set the whole forest on fire. probably exaggerated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: say, be, set, exaggerate · To what, where: campfire, whole forest, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 campfire	det
5	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hot	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hot	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 hot	advmod
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hot	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forest	amod
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 fire	case
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
20	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 exaggerated	advmod
21	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 set	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my cousin	a campfire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent campfire=Topic
2	is	past				still; week	hot property	tree rules
3	set	past		the whole forest	fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme on fire=Destination
4	exaggerate	participle					probably property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Fires go out on their own straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fires	fire	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	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	obl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	2 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	Fires			Fires's own		away, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Forests can't burn from small fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 burn	advmod
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 fires	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fires	amod
7	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	can	Forests					from small fires	vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from fire=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A week is a stretch, but hidden embers stay hot for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretch	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretch	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stretch	det
5	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stay	cc
8	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 embers	amod
9	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	nsubj
10	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretch	conj
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 hours	case
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a week	a stretch					tree rules
2	stay	present	hidden embers				hour	hot property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Embers are never hot after dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hot	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 dark	case
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Embers				after dark	hot property	tree rules

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