Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Frog, part 47: the frog exposes the king'…
what's quicksilver anyway, like is it just liquid mega metal?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: quicksilver · What happens: be · To what, where: quicksilver
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1181 «Fairy Tales, The Frog, part 47: the frog exposes the king's plan, and the king defeats the Lion Fairy» of the books 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 quicksilver | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quicksilver | cop |
| 3 | quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liquid | nsubj |
| 4 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 3 quicksilver | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 is | case |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 liquid | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | expl |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 liquid | advmod |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | mega | megapixel | ADV | _ | 10 liquid | advmod |
| 12 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mega | goeswith |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 liquid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | quicksilver | anyway property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | quicksilver | liquid, megapixel property | tree rules |
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
Yeah, it's a sort of glowing magic water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 sort | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sort | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sort | det |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 glowing | mark |
| 8 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sort | acl |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a sort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | a sort not said here | magic water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, it's a type of wooden tree bark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 type | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 type | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 type | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 type | det |
| 6 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bark | case |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bark | amod |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bark | compound |
| 10 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 type | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a type | of wooden tree bark | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it's a liquid metal that looks like silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 metal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 metal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 metal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 metal | det |
| 6 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 metal | amod |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 metal | acl:relcl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 silver | case |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a liquid metal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | a liquid metal | like silver | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yeah, it's a heavy liquid metal that looks like silver and it flows over the lake in the crystal palace
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 metal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 metal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 metal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 metal | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metal | amod |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metal | amod |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 metal | acl:relcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 silver | case |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flows | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flows | nsubj |
| 15 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flows | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 palace | amod |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a heavy liquid metal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | a heavy liquid metal | like silver | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | flow | present | silver | the lake | in the crystal palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Location |
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