Test 15 · ★ · Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons

Why must you not wait when told to leave because of a wildfire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not wait, tell, leave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 236 «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» 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 wait	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wait	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
10	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 wildfire	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 because	fixed
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wildfire	det
13	wildfire	wildfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not wait	must	you		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	participle	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	because a wildfire	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fire can move faster than you can run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 run	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 faster	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	can	Fire					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	run	can	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Smoke on its own is harmless to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harmless	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 own	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 own	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Smoke	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	cop
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harmless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Smoke on Smoke's own					to children; harmless property	tree rules

Option 3

It will probably rain soon and put 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	7 put	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 rain	advmod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 put	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt

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

Option 4

Wildfires always stop when they reach a road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wildfires	wildfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 reach	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reach	nsubj
6	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Wildfires					always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	reach	present	Wildfires = wildfire	a road					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent road=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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