Exam question 4 · Giggles, skipping and the collection plate

State the principal hazard arising from children running in proximity to lit candles.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal hazard, children · What happens: arise, run · To what, where: proximity

This is exam question 4 of lesson 364 «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hazard	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hazard	amod
4	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	nmod
5	arising	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hazard	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arising	obl
8	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 children	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 proximity	case
10	proximity	proximity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 running	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 candles	case
12	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 candles	amod
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 running	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	gerund	the principal hazard not said here					from children	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	children not said here			proximity		to lit candles result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to candle=Result

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

No appreciable hazard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 hazard	det
2	appreciable	appreciable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hazard	amod
3	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The risk of burns and of fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 risk	det
2	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 burns	case
4	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 risk	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fire	cc
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fire	case
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	risk			burns and fire					nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The risk of disturbing the dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 risk	det
2	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 disturbing	mark
4	disturbing	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 risk	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dust	det
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disturbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disturb	gerund	the risk not said here	the dust					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dust=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The risk of extinguishing the candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 risk	det
2	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 extinguishing	mark
4	extinguishing	extinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 risk	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 candles	det
6	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 extinguishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extinguish	gerund	the risk not said here	the candles					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent candle=Patient

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