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title: my dad reckons put butter on a burn, true? — Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, flo… · tree and pragmatics
description: my dad reckons put butter on a burn, true? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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 9 · ★ · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
my dad reckons put butter on a burn, true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** dad, burn

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain:t9:1
# text = my dad reckons put butter on a burn, true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	reckons	reckon	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive |  | my dad |  | a burn |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset butter=Goal |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, butter cools it down fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, butter cools it down fast
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool down** | present | butter | it |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, use toothpaste instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain:t9:o2:1
# text = No, use toothpaste instead
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | toothpaste |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, cool running water for 20 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain:t9:o3:1
# text = No, cool running water for 20 minutes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, or put ice on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, or put ice on it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | ice |  | ice |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on it=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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