Test 7 · ★ · Fire at home

Why should a child not try to fight a house fire with a bucket of water?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: not try, fight · To what, where: house fire

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 try	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 try	advmod
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 bucket	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bucket	det
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bucket	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not try	should	a child						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here	a house fire				with a bucket of water	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Co-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

Water never puts out any kind of fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 puts	advmod
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 puts	compound:prt
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put out	present	Water	any kind of fire					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kind=Goal

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fires grow fast and getting out quickly saves lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saves	cc
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saves	csubj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 getting	compound:prt
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
8	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Fires		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get out	gerund			quickly property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	save	present	getting	lives		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 3

Firefighters like to put out fires themselves and get cross if you help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 put	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
10	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 help	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
13	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	Firefighters			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	put out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Firefighters not said here	fires	Firefighters = firefighter obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
3	get	infinitive	Firefighters not said here		cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	help a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A bucket is too heavy for any child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bucket	det
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a bucket					for any child; heavy property	tree rules

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