Test 5 · ★ · Fire at home
A boy in Phoenix feels his bedroom door and it is hot. What should he do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, door · What happens: feel, be, do · To what, where: bedroom door
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Phoenix feels his bedroom door and it is hot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Phoenix | case |
| 4 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 door | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hot | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hot | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hot | cop |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feels | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a boy in Phoenix | boy's bedroom door | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | door | hot 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.
Sentence 2: What should he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Keep it shut and use his other way out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 use | cc |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 use | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | infinitive | you not said here | his other way | out property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
Option 2
Pour water on the door and then open it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pour | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pour | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 open | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pour | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | imperative | you not said here | water | the door | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | infinitive | you not said here | water | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Open it slowly and look round for the fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Open | obj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Open | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | it | slowly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | look round | infinitive | you not said here | for the fire; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fire=Theme |
Option 4
Open it quickly and run straight through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Open | obj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Open | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 run | cc |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 through | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | it | quickly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | present | you not said here | through property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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