Exam question 4 · Air and why we need it

Whereas a fire is deprived of oxygen, determine the consequence.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: deprive, determine · To what, where: fire, consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 deprived	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deprived	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deprived	aux:pass
5	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 determine	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 oxygen	case
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deprived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deprived	punct
9	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 consequence	det
11	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 determine	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deprive	present · passive		a fire				of oxygen	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of oxygen=Theme
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the consequence					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic

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

The fire burns more fiercely

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	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 burns	advmod
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	3 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the fire					fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fire is extinguished

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 extinguished	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 extinguished	cop
4	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fire					extinguished property	tree rules

Option 3

The fire is unaffected

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 unaffected	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unaffected	cop
4	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fire					unaffected property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The fire produces oxygen of its own

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	3 produces	nsubj
3	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 produces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oxygen	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	the fire	oxygen of fire's own					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Result

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