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title: A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake. What c… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake. What could happen? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

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A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake. What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** lean, happen · **To what, where:** candle

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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/294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:1
# text = A girl with long hair leans over a candle on a birthday cake.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | present | a girl with long hair |  |  | a candle |  | on a birthday cake | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over candle=Location |

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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:* What could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, because hair does not burn and candles are too small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because hair does not burn and candles are too small
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Her hair could catch fire, so she should tie it back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:o2:1
# text = Her hair could catch fire, so she should tie it back
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | could | Her hair | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **tie back** | should | hair | fire |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The candle would go out by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:o3:1
# text = The candle would go out by itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only her eyebrows could be in danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t4:o4:1
# text = Only her eyebrows could be in danger
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	danger	danger	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** | could | her eyebrows |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |

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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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