Test 10 · ★ · Holidays of the region

Why are fireworks safest at an organised display?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fireworks · What happens: be · To what, where: organised display

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» 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	4 safest	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safest	cop
3	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safest	nsubj
4	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 display	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 display	det
7	organised	organised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 display	amod
8	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safest	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 safest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fireworks			a organised display		safe property	tree rules

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

Children may help light them there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 light	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 light	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	may	Children						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	light	infinitive	Children not said here	Children = child		there			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trained people let them off while the crowd stands back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 stands	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crowd	det
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stands	nsubj
9	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 stands	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	train	participle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	let off	present	Trained people	them = they	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stand back	present	the crowd		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Displays use fireworks that cannot explode or hurt anyone in the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Displays	display	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 explode	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 explode	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 explode	advmod
7	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fireworks	acl:relcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 explode	conj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 hurt	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 crowd	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crowd	det
13	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	Displays	fireworks		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Patient
2	not explode	can	fireworks			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurt	infinitive	fireworks not said here	anyone	the crowd	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 4

The fireworks there are not hot at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fireworks	det
2	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hot	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 fireworks	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the fireworks			all		hot property	tree rules

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