Test 3 · ★ · Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight

Which of these is true about burns?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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	5 true	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 true	mark
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 true	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 burns	case
7	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about burns; 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

Ice straight on a burn is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 burn	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 burn	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 burn	det
5	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ice	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ice on a burn					good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cool running water for 20 minutes helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	nmod
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present	Cool running water for 20 minutes						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Butter or oil is the best thing to put on a burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 oil	cc
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Butter	conj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 put	mark
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 burn	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 burn	det
12	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Butter or oil	the best thing					tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive				a burn			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on burn=Destination

Option 4

A burn needs no cooling at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 burn	det
2	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cooling	det
5	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cooling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a burn	no cooling		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cooling=Theme

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