Test 2 · ★ · Holidays of the region
Which is true about a sparkler on the Fourth of July?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 sparkler | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sparkler | det |
| 6 | sparkler | sparkler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Fourth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fourth | det |
| 9 | Fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sparkler | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 July | case |
| 11 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fourth | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about a sparkler on the Fourth of July; true 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
It cannot burn clothes or skin
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 | 4 burn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 burn | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 burn | advmod |
| 4 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 burn | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 skin | cc |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clothes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not burn | can | It | clothes or skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is much hotter than a candle flame
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 | 4 hotter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hotter | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 hotter | advmod |
| 4 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 flame | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flame | det |
| 7 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flame | compound |
| 8 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hotter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | than a candle flame; hot property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only big rockets can cause burns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 rockets | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rockets | amod |
| 3 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | aux |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | burns | burn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | can | big rockets | burns | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient |
Option 4
It is cool enough to touch at the tip
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 | 3 cool | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cool | cop |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 cool | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 touch | mark |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cool | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 tip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tip | det |
| 9 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | cool, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | the tip | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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