Test 9 · ★ · Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel…

At a New Year fireworks show, which is the safest way to watch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fireworks · What happens: show, be, watch · To what, where: safest way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 322 «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Year	det
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Year	compound
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 show	obl
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 way	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 watch	mark
14	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	show	present	fireworks		at a New Year	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the safest way		tree rules
3	watch	to-infinitive	fireworks not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Holding a lit firework in your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 firework	det
3	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 firework	amod
4	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		a lit firework		your hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent firework=Theme in hand=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

From a safe distance behind the line the adults set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 distance	det
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adults	det
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 set	compound
10	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	acl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Picking up used fireworks as souvenirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Picking	compound:prt
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fireworks	amod
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picking	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 souvenirs	case
6	souvenirs	souvenir	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	gerund		used fireworks				as souvenirs	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Topic
2	use	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Right up next to the fireworks, so you get the very best view of them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	2 up	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 up	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fireworks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fireworks	det
6	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 next	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 view	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 best	advmod
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 view	amod
14	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 view	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	you	the best view of fireworks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus
2	view			fireworks = firework					nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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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