Test 2 · ★ · Air and why we need it

Why does blowing gently on a dying campfire make it burn brighter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blowing, campfire · What happens: blow, die, make, burn · To what, where: dying campfire, campfire

This is test 2 · ★ 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	3 blowing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blowing	aux
3	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 make	csubj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 blowing	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 campfire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 campfire	det
7	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 campfire	amod
8	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	obl
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 burn	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	present · do-support			a dying campfire	gently property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	make	present	blowing	campfire			tree rules
4	burn	infinitive	campfire not said here			bright property	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

Your warm breath heats the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 breath	nmod:poss
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breath	amod
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	nsubj
4	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	Your warm breath	the wood					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It brings the fire more oxygen

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 brings	nsubj
2	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 oxygen	amod
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	It	the fire					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent fire=Destination oxygen=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It cools the wood so it burns better

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 cools	nsubj
2	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 burns	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 burns	nsubj
7	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cools	advcl
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 burns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	It	the wood					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
2	burn	present	wood					good property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Your breath is full of fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 breath	nmod:poss
2	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fuel	case
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your breath					of fuel; full property	tree rules

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