Test 2 · Rust: iron's slow fire
You keep a nail in a sealed jar with a packet of drying crystals, which soak up any water. What will happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, drying crystals · What happens: keep, seal, dry, soak up, happen · To what, where: nail, sealed jar, water
This is test 2 of lesson 13 «Rust: iron's slow fire» 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
Sentence 1: You keep a nail in a sealed jar with a packet of drying crystals, which soak up any 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 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nail | det |
| 4 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jar | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jar | det |
| 7 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 jar | amod |
| 8 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 packet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 packet | det |
| 11 | packet | packet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crystals | case |
| 13 | drying | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 crystals | amod |
| 14 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 packet | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soak | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 soak | nsubj |
| 17 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 crystals | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 soak | compound:prt |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soak | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | You | a nail | a sealed jar | with a packet of drying crystals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme in jar=Location | ||
| 2 | seal | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | dry | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | soak up | present | drying crystals | any water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source |
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: What will happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It will rust even faster than a nail left out in the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rust | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rust | aux |
| 3 | rust | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 faster | advmod |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 rust | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 nail | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nail | det |
| 8 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faster | obl |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nail | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 left | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rain | det |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust | future | It | fast property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave out | participle | a nail not said here | the rain | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It will turn green like copper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turn | xcomp |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 copper | case |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | It | like copper; green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It will rust only at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rust | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rust | aux |
| 3 | rust | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 rust | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rust | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust | future | It | night | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It will hardly rust, because there is no water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rust | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rust | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 rust | advmod |
| 4 | rust | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rust | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust | future | It | hardly property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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