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title: «just chuck the leaves on the bonfire and light it, who cares» Why s… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers… · tree and pragmatics
description: «just chuck the leaves on the bonfire and light it, who cares» Why should someone check first? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 7 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

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«just chuck the leaves on the bonfire and light it, who cares» Why should someone check first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, someone · **What happens:** chuck, care, check · **To what, where:** leaves, bonfire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t7:1
# text = «just chuck the leaves on the bonfire and light it, who cares» Why should someone check first?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the leaves |  | the bonfire and light |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **check** | should | someone |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Leaves are against the law to burn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t7:o1:1
# text = Leaves are against the law to burn
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Leaves |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A hedgehog may be sleeping in the pile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t7:o2:1
# text = A hedgehog may be sleeping in the pile
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | may · progressive | a hedgehog |  |  | the pile |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pile=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Wet leaves make the fire explode

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t7:o3:1
# text = Wet leaves make the fire explode
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Wet leaves | the fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **explode** | infinitive | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spiders will come out and bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts:t7:o4:1
# text = Spiders will come out and bite
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | future | Spiders |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bite** | present | Spiders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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