Test 9 · ★ · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

my dad reckons put butter on a burn, true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: put · To what, where: dad, burn

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	reckons	reckon	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 burn	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 burn	det
8	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · passive		my dad		a burn			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset butter=Goal

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, butter cools it down fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	nsubj
4	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cools	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 cools	compound:prt
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	present	butter	it				fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

No, use toothpaste instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	toothpaste				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, cool running water for 20 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cool	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cool	obl

#	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

Option 4

Yes, or put ice on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	ice		ice			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on it=Destination

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