Test 5 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

What would happen if you put a lid on a candle jar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: lid, candle jar

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lid	det
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 jar	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
11	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jar	compound
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a lid		a candle jar			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme on jar=Destination

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 flame would keep burning for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the flame						tree rules
2	burn	gerund	the flame not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The flame would grow bigger and hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hotter	cc
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the flame					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The flame would go out once its oxygen was used up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 used	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 oxygen	nmod:poss
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 used	aux:pass
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 go	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 used	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	the flame					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use up	past · passive		flame's oxygen					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The flame would burn on quietly until all the wax ran out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flame	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 burn	compound:prt
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 burn	advmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 ran	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 wax	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wax	det
10	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn on	would	the flame					quietly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run out	past	all wax						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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