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Test 3 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

A boy burns his hand on a hot marshmallow. His friend fetches ice. What is better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: burn, fetch, be · To what, where: hand, hot marshmallow, ice

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy burns his hand on a hot marshmallow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 marshmallow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 marshmallow	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marshmallow	amod
9	marshmallow	marshmallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	a boy	boy's hand		a hot marshmallow			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: His friend fetches ice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetches	nsubj
3	fetches	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetches	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	present	boy's friend	ice					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme

Sentence 3: What is better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ice held on hard for a whole hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ice	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 hard	case
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 hour	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		Ice not said here		hard	hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hard=Location

Option 2

Toothpaste rubbed in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Toothpaste	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub in	participle		Toothpaste not said here					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Butter spread thickly over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spread	xcomp
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Butter			it		thickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cool running water for 20 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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