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title: Why would a hedgehog choose a bonfire heap to sleep in? — Fire: what it needs and how to put it… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a hedgehog choose a bonfire heap to sleep in? Test 10 · ★★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

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Why would a hedgehog choose a bonfire heap to sleep in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hedgehog · **What happens:** choose, sleep in · **To what, where:** bonfire heap

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This is test 10 · ★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t10:1
# text = Why would a hedgehog choose a bonfire heap to sleep in?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | would | a hedgehog | a bonfire heap |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep in** | to-infinitive | a hedgehog *not said here* | a bonfire heap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It wants to stay up and watch the fireworks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t10:o1:1
# text = It wants to stay up and watch the fireworks
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stay up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive |  | the fireworks |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme |

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

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It is a warm, dry heap, good for winter sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t10:o2:1
# text = It is a warm, dry heap, good for winter sleep
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a warm dry heap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It likes the smell of smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t10:o3:1
# text = It likes the smell of smoke
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | It | the smell of smoke |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot smell=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** |  | smoke |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hedgehogs love the heat from flames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t10:o4:1
# text = Hedgehogs love the heat from flames
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Hedgehogs | the heat |  | flames |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |

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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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