Test 4 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules

What would happen if Uncle Ray threw water on a burning chip pan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Ray · What happens: happen, throw, burn · To what, where: water, burning chip pan

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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	_	7 threw	mark
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ray	compound
6	Ray	Ray	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 pan	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pan	det
11	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 pan	amod
12	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pan	compound
13	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw a condition, not said to happen	past	Uncle Ray	water	a burning chip pan	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on pan=Destination
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

The water would flash to steam and spray burning oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flash	aux
4	flash	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 steam	case
6	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spray	cc
8	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flash	conj
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 oil	amod
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spray	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	flash	would	the water		steam	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to steam=Recipient
2	spray	present	the water not said here	burning oil		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, because water and oil mix

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mix	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 mix	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mix	compound
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 oil	cc
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
7	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

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

Option 3

The fire would go out at once, as safely as with a lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	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	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safely	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 safely	case
10	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 lid	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 lid	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lid	det
14	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 safely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	the fire					out, safely property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The oil would freeze into a solid lump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oil	det
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 lump	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lump	det
7	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lump	amod
8	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the oil			a solid lump			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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