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title: Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests." Is that the whole… — Fire: what it needs and how to put it… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests." Is that the whole story? Test 9 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Fire: what it needs and how to put it out

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Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests." Is that the whole story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, fire · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** whole story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:1
# text = Your brother says: "All fire is bad for forests."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	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	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all fire |  |  |  |  | for forests; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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:* Is that the whole story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:2
# text = Is that the whole story?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the whole story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, no plant at all can survive a forest fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, no plant at all can survive a forest fire
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | can | no plant at all | a forest fire |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Circumstance |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fire only helps forests in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:o2:1
# text = Fire only helps forests in winter
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Fire | forests |  |  | winter |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Forests cannot burn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:o3:1
# text = Forests cannot burn
1	Forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | can | Forests |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some trees and seeds need fire to open and grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:12-fire-what-it-needs:t9:o4:1
# text = Some trees and seeds need fire to open and grow
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | some trees and seeds | fire |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | some trees and seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | some trees and seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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