Test 4 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: lean, happen · To what, where: candle

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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: A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leans	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hair	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 candle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 candle	det
9	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leans	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 cake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cake	det
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cake	compound
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leans	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	a girl with long hair			a candle		on a birthday cake	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over candle=Location

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 happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because hair does not burn and candles are too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 small	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 burn	mark
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 burn	advmod
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 candles	cc
9	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 small	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	present · do-support	hair						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Nothing					small property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her hair could catch fire, so she should tie it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tie	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 tie	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tie	aux
10	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catch	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 tie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	could	Her hair	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	tie back	should	hair	fire					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

The candle would go out by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	the candle					by candle; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only her eyebrows could be in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 danger	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyebrows	nmod:poss
3	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 danger	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 danger	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 danger	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 danger	case
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	her eyebrows			danger			tree rules

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