Test 6 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

Why do firefighters tell people never to go back into a burning house?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: firefighters · What happens: tell, not go back, burn · To what, where: people, burning house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 tell	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	iobj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	firefighters	people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go back not said to happen	to-infinitive			a burning house	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Houses always rebuild themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rebuild	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 rebuild	advmod
3	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 rebuild	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rebuild	present	Houses	Houses = house				always property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result

Option 2

The firefighters want to save the things themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 firefighters	det
2	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 save	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the firefighters						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	the firefighters not said here	the things				firefighters = firefighter obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 3

It is against the law to own pets

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	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 own	mark
7	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 own	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	own	to-infinitive		pets					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pet=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People die going back inside for things or pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 die	xcomp
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 things	case
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 pets	cc
9	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 things	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	People						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back	gerund	People not said here					for things or pets; inside property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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