Test 14 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Why should you never burn poison ivy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not burn · To what, where: poison ivy

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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 burn	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 burn	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 burn	advmod
5	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ivy	compound
7	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	should	you	poison ivy					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ivy=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

It makes far too much ash for the garden to cope with

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 much	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ash	amod
6	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cope	mark
11	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	11 cope	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	much ash				for the garden	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent ash=Product for garden=Asset
2	cope	to-infinitive							vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Burning makes it grow back stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	it	strong property	tree rules
3	grow back	infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The smoke carries the oil into your lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oil	det
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 lungs	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lungs	nmod:poss
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the smoke	the oil		your lungs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme

Option 4

The smoke only smells bad, nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smells	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 smells	advmod
4	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smells	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 smells	obl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 smells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	the smoke	nothing				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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