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title: Why must you never pour fuel on a campfire? — Campfires, cold nights and rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must you never pour fuel on a campfire? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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 right.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Campfires, cold nights and rivers

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Why must you never pour fuel on a campfire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not pour · **To what, where:** fuel, campfire

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 231 «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» 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/231-campfires-and-rivers/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t14:1
# text = Why must you never pour fuel on a campfire?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	campfire	campfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pour** | must | you | fuel |  | a campfire |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient |

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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 wastes the fuel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t14:o1:1
# text = It wastes the fuel
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wastes	waste	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	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | present | It | the fuel |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fuel=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes too much smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t14:o2:1
# text = It makes too much smoke
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	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | much smoke |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smoke=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The flames can burst up and burn you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t14:o3:1
# text = The flames can burst up and burn you
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	burst	burst	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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst up** | can | the flames |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | infinitive | the flames *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It puts the fire out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers:t14:o4:1
# text = It puts the fire out
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	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	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | present | It | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |

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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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