Test 3 · Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of…
You put one pondweed in the sun and one in a dark cupboard, both in water. Which makes more bubbles?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: put, make · To what, where: one pondweed, sun, more bubbles
This is test 3 of lesson 251 «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» of the biology 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.
The question
Sentence 1: You put one pondweed in the sun and one in a dark cupboard, both in water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pondweed | nummod |
| 4 | pondweed | pondweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cupboard | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cupboard | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cupboard | amod |
| 13 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 15 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 17 water | cc:preconj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | You | one pondweed | the sun | in water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pondweed=Theme in sun=Destination |
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.
Sentence 2: Which makes more bubbles?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 bubbles | amod |
| 4 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | more bubbles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The one in the cupboard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cupboard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cupboard | det |
| 5 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The one in the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither, pondweed never makes bubbles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 makes | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | pondweed | pondweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present | pondweed | bubbles | neither property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |
Option 4
Both exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 same | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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