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title: What would happen if you took away the fuel from a campfire? — Fire: what it needs and how to put it… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you took away the fuel from a campfire? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

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What would happen if you took away the fuel from a campfire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, take away · **To what, where:** fuel, campfire

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t8:1
# text = What would happen if you took away the fuel from a campfire?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	campfire	campfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | the fuel |  | a campfire |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme from campfire=Initial\_Location |

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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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It would get bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t8:o1:1
# text = It would get bigger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | It |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would turn into smoke only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t8:o2:1
# text = It would turn into smoke only
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | smoke |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into smoke=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It would keep burning forever on the air alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t8:o3:1
# text = It would keep burning forever on the air alone
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | It |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  | the air |  | forever *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would go out when the fuel already burning is used up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t8:o4:1
# text = It would go out when the fuel already burning is used up
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | would | It |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | the fuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use up** | present · passive |  | the fuel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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