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title: Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter flui… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid. Why is that dangerous? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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 wr
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

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Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid. Why is that dangerous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** want, make, be · **To what, where:** barbecue flames

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:1
# text = Leo's dad wants to make the barbecue flames bigger with lighter fluid.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Leo's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Leo's dad *not said here* | the barbecue flames |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flame=Product |

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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:* Why is that dangerous?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:2
# text = Why is that dangerous?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lighter fluid makes the barbecue too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:o1:1
# text = Lighter fluid makes the barbecue too cold
1	Lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Lighter fluid | the barbecue |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barbecue=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the food taste sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:o2:1
# text = It makes the food taste sweet
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	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	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | present | the food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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The fuel can flare up and burn him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:o3:1
# text = The fuel can flare up and burn him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	flare	flare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flare up** | can | the fuel |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | infinitive | the fuel *not said here* | fuel |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The barbecue will go out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t3:o4:1
# text = The barbecue will go out
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | future | the barbecue |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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