Test 8 · ★ · Fire at home

Why is a smoke alarm better at detecting a fire than a sleeping person?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, detect, sleep · To what, where: smoke alarm, fire

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 alarm	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alarm	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 alarm	det
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarm	compound
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 alarm	advmod
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	8 detecting	mark
8	detecting	detect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 alarm	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 detecting	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 detecting	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 alarm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a smoke alarm	well property	tree rules
2	detect	gerund	a fire	than a sleeping person	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
3	sleep	gerund			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It senses smoke while people are asleep and cannot smell well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 senses	nsubj
2	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 senses	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 asleep	mark
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asleep	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 senses	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smell	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 smell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 smell	advmod
11	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 senses	conj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 smell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sense	present	It	smoke		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
2	is	present	people		asleep property	tree rules
3	not smell	can			well property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It hears the crackle of fire from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crackle	det
4	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crackle	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 far	case
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	2 hears	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	the crackle of fire				away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crackle=Stimulus
2	crackle		fire						nom crackle «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

It is warmer than a person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warmer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warmer	cop
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than a person; warm property	tree rules

Option 4

It can see flames through walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 walls	case
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	It	flames		walls			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flame=Stimulus

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