Test 3 · ★★★ · The candle and what burning is

"why don't gas hobs leave black crap on pans but candles do on plates" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gas hobs, candles · What happens: leave, do · To what, where: black crap, pans, plates

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 11 «The candle and what burning is» of the chemistry 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 leave	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hobs	advmod
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hobs	compound
6	hobs	hob	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crap	amod
9	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 pans	case
11	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	obl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 plates	case
16	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 answer	punct
18	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plates	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	present · do-support	gas hobs	black crap		pans			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crap=Theme on pan=Location
2	do in a quote	present	candles			plates and Best answer			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Gas hobs are wiped clean by tiny robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hobs	compound
2	hobs	hob	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wiped	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	aux:pass
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wiped	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 robots	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robots	amod
8	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wiped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	present · passive	tiny robots	Gas hobs				clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gas mixed with air burns cleanly with no soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	nsubj
2	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gas	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 air	case
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mixed	obl
5	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cleanly	cleanly	ADV	_	5 burns	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 soot	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 soot	det
9	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Gas not said here				with air	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with air=Co-Patient
2	burn	present	Gas					with no soot; cleanly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with soot=Theme

Option 3

Pans are too hot for soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hot	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 soot	case
6	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pans					for soot; hot property	tree rules

Option 4

Candle wax is black inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wax	compound
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 black	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Candle wax					black, inside property	tree rules

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