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title: apparently a kid touched giant hogweed and his whole arm melted off… — Plants that sting, scratch and poison · tree and pragmatics
description: apparently a kid touched giant hogweed and his whole arm melted off in the sun. what's probably blown up? Test 17 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 17 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

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apparently a kid touched giant hogweed and his whole arm melted off in the sun. what's probably blown up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** touch, melt off, blow up · **To what, where:** giant hogweed, whole arm, sun.

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This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t17:1
# text = apparently a kid touched giant hogweed and his whole arm melted off in the sun. what's probably blown up?
1	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | a kid | giant hogweed and kid's whole arm |  |  |  | apparently *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hogweed=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **melt off** | participle |  | kid's whole arm *not said here* |  | the sun. |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **blow up** | present · passive |  | the sun. |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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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That sun makes the burns worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t17:o1:1
# text = That sun makes the burns worse
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	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	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That hogweed is a tall plant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t17:o2:1
# text = That hogweed is a tall plant
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that hogweed | a tall plant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That hogweed has white flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t17:o3:1
# text = That hogweed has white flowers
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hogweed	hogweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that hogweed | white flowers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |

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

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Melted off; but its sap really burns skin in sunlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison:t17:o4:1
# text = Melted off; but its sap really burns skin in sunlight
1	Melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt off** | participle | its sap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **burn** | present | its sap | skin |  | sunlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=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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