Test 14 · ★ · Fire at home

house is on fire but my tablet's upstairs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: be · To what, where: fire

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 34 «Fire 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	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fire	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tablet	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tablet	nmod:poss
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fire	conj
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fire	parataxis
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	8 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	house			fire but my tablet			tree rules
2	be	present						upstairs property	vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Go up if the smoke is thin and you hold your breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Go	compound:prt
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 thin	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smoke	det
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thin	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thin	cop
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hold	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hold	nsubj
10	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thin	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breath	nmod:poss
12	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	imperative	you not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the smoke		thin property	tree rules
3	hold	present	you	your breath		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Get out and stay out, never go back for things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stay	cc
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stay	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 things	case
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay out	infinitive	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not go back	infinitive	you not said here	for things	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Send your brother up for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 Send	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send up	imperative	you not said here	your brother				for it	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

Option 4

Run up quickly and get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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