Test 9 · Rust: iron's slow fire

Which spoon would you expect to stay shiny for years in a wet kitchen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spoon · What happens: expect, stay · To what, where: wet kitchen

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 spoon	det
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expect	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expect	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 expect	nsubj
5	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 expect	xcomp
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
13	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kitchen	amod
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 expect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	would	which spoon						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	which spoon not said here			a wet kitchen	year	shiny property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A stainless-steel spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
2	stainless	stainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 steel	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 stainless	punct
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	compound
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A rough plain iron spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoon	amod
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoon	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	compound
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A bright copper teaspoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teaspoon	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teaspoon	amod
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teaspoon	compound
4	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A painted iron spoon, chipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
2	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoon	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoon	compound
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chipped	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoon	punct
6	chipped	chip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chip	participle	a painted iron spoon						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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