Exam question 3 · Fire at home

Identify the action to be taken by a person whose clothing has caught fire.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, take, catch · To what, where: action, clothing

This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Fire at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 taken	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 action	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 clothing	nmod:poss
11	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	aux
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 person	acl:relcl
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the action	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive · passive	a person	the action not said here	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	catch	present · perfect · passive		clothing	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fire=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

To stand still and remove all clothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stand	mark
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 remove	cc
5	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 clothing	det
7	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	to-infinitive					still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remove	infinitive		all clothing					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme

Option 2

To wave the arms so as to blow out the flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wave	mark
2	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arms	det
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wave	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	2 wave	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 blow	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 blow	mark
8	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wave	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 blow	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flames	det
11	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	to-infinitive		the arms					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	blow out	to-infinitive		the flames					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient

Option 3

To run as quickly as possible to fetch water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 run	mark
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 quickly	advmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 possible	mark
6	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quickly	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 run	advcl
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	to-infinitive						quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive		water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

To stop, to drop to the ground, to cover the face and to roll

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drop	mark
5	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cover	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cover	mark
11	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 face	det
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cover	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 roll	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 roll	mark
16	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	drop	to-infinitive		the ground	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory
3	cover	to-infinitive	the face		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination
4	roll	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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