Test 2 · ★ · Fire at home

Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement					true property	tree rules

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

Smoke always sinks down to the floor first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 sinks	advmod
3	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sinks	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sinks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	present	Smoke					to the floor; always, down, first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Flames kill many more people than smoke does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	nsubj
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Flames	many more people					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	do	present	smoke						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Fire takes hours to fill a room with smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 takes	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fill	mark
5	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fill	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 smoke	case
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Fire				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fill	to-infinitive	Fire not said here	a room				with smoke	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with smoke=Instrument

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Smoke collects near the ceiling first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collects	nsubj
2	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 ceiling	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ceiling	det
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collects	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 collects	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	present	Smoke			the ceiling		first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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