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title: Your mate says: "Chip pan's on fire, chuck a bucket of water on it!"… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate says: "Chip pan's on fire, chuck a bucket of water on it!" What should happen instead? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

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Your mate says: "Chip pan's on fire, chuck a bucket of water on it!" What should happen instead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** say, chuck, happen · **To what, where:** bucket, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate says: "Chip pan's on fire, chuck a bucket of water on it!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:1
# text = Your mate says: "Chip pan's on fire, chuck a bucket of water on it!"
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **chuck** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a bucket of water |  | mate |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme on it=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should happen instead?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:2
# text = What should happen instead?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | should |  |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Carry the pan outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:o1:1
# text = Carry the pan outside
1	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pan |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Throw the water quickly, because water always puts out every fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:o2:1
# text = Throw the water quickly, because water always puts out every fire
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **put out** | present | water | every fire |  |  |  | always *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Never water: cover it with a lid and get out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:o3:1
# text = Never water: cover it with a lid and get out
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | infinitive | water | it |  |  |  | with a lid | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with lid=Theme |
| 2 | **get out** | infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Blow on it hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t1:o4:1
# text = Blow on it hard
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | it |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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