Test 8 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago…

How could you show that water has a skin?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: show, have · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 show	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	could	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	that water	a skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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

Option 1

Stir the water fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stir	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stir	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	the water				fast property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Freeze the water in a tray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freeze	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tray	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tray	det
6	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	imperative	you not said here	the water		a tray			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lay a dry paperclip gently on the water and watch it float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 paperclip	det
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paperclip	amod
4	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obj
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Lay	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watch	cc
10	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lay	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watch	obj
12	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 watch	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	a dry paperclip	the water	gently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paperclip=Theme on water=Destination
2	watch	infinitive	you not said here	paperclip			tree rules
3	float	infinitive	paperclip not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Pour salt into a glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 glass	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	salt		a glass			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into glass=Destination

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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