Test 11 · ★ · Air and why we need it

why's the candle go out when u put a jar over it

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» of the world 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candle	det
4	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 put	advmod
8	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jar	det
11	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present	the candle					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past	u	a jar		candle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme over it=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 jar makes it too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the jar	it				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

Option 2

The smoke pushes the flame down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flame	det
5	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	present	the smoke	the flame				down property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It uses up the oxygen it needs to burn

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 uses	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxygen	det
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 oxygen	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 burn	mark
9	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use up	present	It	the oxygen	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient
2	need	present	oxygen	the oxygen not said here	tree rules
3	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the oxygen not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The glass blocks the light it needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	nsubj
3	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	the glass	the light					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=Theme
2	need	present	glass	the light not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme

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