Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

In a smoky hallway, why is a child crawling safer than an adult walking tall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, adult · What happens: crawl, walk · To what, where: smoky hallway

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hallway	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hallway	det
3	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hallway	amod
4	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawling	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hallway	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 crawling	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crawling	aux
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawling	nsubj
10	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 crawling	xcomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 adult	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safer	obl
15	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 adult	acl
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 walking	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 crawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	present · progressive	a child			a smoky hallway		safe property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hallway=Trajectory
2	walk	gerund	a adult not said here					tall property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Fire only burns upward, never along the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 burns	advmod
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upward	upward	ADV	_	3 burns	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 floor	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 floor	advmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	Fire			the floor		upward property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along floor=Location

Option 2

The child is lighter, so the smoke floats past them and avoids them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lighter	cop
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 floats	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 floats	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smoke	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floats	nsubj
9	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lighter	conj
10	past	past	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 floats	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 avoids	cc
13	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 floats	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 avoids	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child		light property	tree rules
2	float	present	the smoke		past them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory
3	avoid	present	the smoke not said here	them = they		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child's face is in the cooler, cleaner air near the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 face	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 air	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 air	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
8	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 air	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cooler	punct
10	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child's face			the cooler cleaner air		near the floor	tree rules

Option 4

Smoke cannot get into small lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 lungs	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lungs	amod
7	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	can	Smoke			small lungs			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lung=Destination

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