Test 13 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

let's burn ants with the magnifying glass, its science

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 's · What happens: let, burn, magnify · To what, where: 's, ants

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 let	obj
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 let	xcomp
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glass	det
7	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 glass	amod
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 science	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 science	nmod:poss
11	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	's	glass's science obl	tree rules
2	burn	infinitive	's not said here	ants	with the magnifying glass	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ant=Patient with glass=Instrument
3	magnify	gerund				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

No, that burns and hurts living things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 burns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burns	punct
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hurts	cc
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burns	conj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burn	present	that		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	present	that not said here	living things	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient
3	live	gerund			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it is fine because it is science

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 science	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 science	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 science	cop
9	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					because science	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, ants are too small to feel the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 small	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 small	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heat	det
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ants					small property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	ants not said here	the heat					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

Option 4

Yes, if you only do a few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 few	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	you	a few					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Eventuality

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