Test 3 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

why does the alarm go off when toast burns lol it's not a fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: alarm, toast · What happens: go off, burn, not be · To what, where: fire

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 alarm	det
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 burns	mark
8	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	nsubj
9	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	advcl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 fire	discourse
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fire	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fire	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 fire	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go off	present · do-support	the alarm		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	burn	present	toast		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	present	toast	a fire	tree rules

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

It senses smoke, and burnt toast makes smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 senses	nsubj
2	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 senses	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 makes	cc
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toast	amod
7	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 senses	conj
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	present	It	smoke					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
2	make	present	burnt toast	smoke					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smoke=Product

Option 2

It feels the kitchen getting warm and thinks it is a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kitchen	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	obj
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kitchen	acl
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thinks	cc
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feels	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fire	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fire	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It	the kitchen		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme
2	get	gerund	the kitchen not said here		warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	present				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	kitchen	a fire		tree rules

Option 3

It hears the toaster pop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pop	det
4	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pop	compound
5	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	the toaster pop					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pop=Stimulus

Option 4

It smells the butter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 butter	det
4	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	It	the butter					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer butter=Stimulus

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