Test 13 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

got a magnifying glass, gonna burn some ants

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: get, magnify, burn · To what, where: magnifying glass, ants

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glass	det
3	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 glass	amod
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 burn	dep
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 got	advcl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 ants	det
9	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past	a magnifying glass	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus
2	magnify	gerund		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	burn	infinitive	some ants	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ant=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.

The options

Option 1

Only in strong sun at midday when it works best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 sun	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sun	amod
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midday	case
6	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sun	nmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 works	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 works	nsubj
9	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sun	advcl
10	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	midday					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, ants don't feel it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 feel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 feel	advmod
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · do-support	ants	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

No, never point it at anything, it can start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 point	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 point	advmod
4	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 point	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 start	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 start	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 start	aux
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 point	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not point	imperative	you not said here	it		anything			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	start	can	it	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, it's fine if you do it on dry grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it		dry grass			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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