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Test 7 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Your dad is clearing a garden in Ohio and wants to burn a pile of vines. Why should he check for poison ivy first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: clear, want, burn, check · To what, where: garden, Ohio, pile

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your dad is clearing a garden in Ohio and wants to burn a pile of vines.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clearing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clearing	aux
4	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clearing	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ohio	case
8	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clearing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wants	cc
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clearing	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 burn	mark
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wants	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pile	det
14	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burn	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 vines	case
16	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pile	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clearing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	present · progressive	Your dad	a garden		Ohio			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garden=Source
2	want	present	Your dad not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your dad not said here	a pile of vines					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pile=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: Why should he check for poison ivy first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 check	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 check	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 check	nsubj
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ivy	case
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ivy	compound
7	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 check	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	should	dad					for poison ivy; first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for ivy=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the fire spread much faster across the garden

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	ccomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 faster	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It			the garden		fast property	tree rules
2	spread	past	the fire						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its smoke carries the oil into the lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 smoke	nmod:poss
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lungs	det
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	Its smoke	the oil		the lungs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
2	smoke		Its = it						nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Its ash kills the grass around the fire for many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ash	nmod:poss
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Its ash	the grass		the fire	year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme

Option 4

Burning it is against all the fire rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 rules	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burning	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rules	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	8 rules	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 rules	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rules	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rules	compound
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	Burning					against all fire rules	tree rules

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