Test 5 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites
Children in Philadelphia open a fire hydrant to play. What could go wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Children · What happens: open, play, go · To what, where: fire hydrant
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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: Children in Philadelphia open a fire hydrant to play.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Philadelphia | case |
| 3 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Children | nmod |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hydrant | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hydrant | compound |
| 7 | hydrant | hydrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hydrant | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | infinitive | Children in Philadelphia | a fire hydrant | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hydrant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Children in Philadelphia not said here | a fire hydrant not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What could go wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing; hydrants are put there for children to play with in summer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 3 | hydrants | hydrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 put | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 summer | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 summer | case |
| 13 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | hydrants | there | for children | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | summer | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The water will be too hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hot | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the water | hot property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Firefighters may not have enough water to fight a fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | may | Firefighters | enough water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | enough water not said here | a fire | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Co-Agent |
Option 4
The hydrant will play music
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hydrant | det |
| 2 | hydrant | hydrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | future | the hydrant | music | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
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