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title: candle on my shelf, leaving it on while i sleep — Fire, candles and garage and garden to… · tree and pragmatics
description: candle on my shelf, leaving it on while i sleep Test 14 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday 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 14 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

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candle on my shelf, leaving it on while i sleep

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** candle, i · **What happens:** leave on, sleep · **To what, where:** shelf

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday 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/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t14:1
# text = candle on my shelf, leaving it on while i sleep
1	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave on** | gerund | candle on my shelf | shelf |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | i |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Move it next to the curtain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t14:o1:1
# text = Move it next to the curtain
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the curtain |  | next *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to curtain=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Only leave it if it's small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t14:o2:1
# text = Only leave it if it's small
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leave it, candles go out alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t14:o3:1
# text = Leave it, candles go out alone
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | present | candles |  |  |  |  | alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Blow it out, it can set things on fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t14:o4:1
# text = Blow it out, it can set things on fire
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow out** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | can | it | things |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on fire=Destination |

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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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