Test 4 · ★ · Tarnish and how metals change
Jake: "gold's dead old on that frame but it's still shiny, someone must polish it". What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gold, someone, truth · What happens: be, polish · To what, where: gold
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 14 «Tarnish and how metals change» 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: Jake: "gold's dead old on that frame but it's still shiny, someone must polish it".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 old | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 frame | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 frame | det |
| 10 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 shiny | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shiny | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shiny | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 shiny | advmod |
| 15 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 old | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 polish | punct |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 polish | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 polish | aux |
| 19 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 old | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 polish | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 polish | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | gold | still | shiny property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | polish in a quote | must | someone | gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
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's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Old gold always goes black eventually
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 goes | advmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goes | xcomp |
| 6 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Old gold | always, black, eventually property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Gold doesn't tarnish, so it stays bright
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tarnish | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarnish | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tarnish | advmod |
| 4 | tarnish | tarnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stays | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 stays | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stays | nsubj |
| 8 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tarnish | conj |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stays | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tarnish | present · do-support | Gold | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stay | present | Gold | bright property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The frame is plastic painted gold-coloured
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frame | det |
| 2 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plastic | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plastic | cop |
| 4 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coloured | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 gold | punct |
| 8 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plastic | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the frame | plastic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | the frame not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Gold is polished every week by museums
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 polished | aux:pass |
| 3 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 polished | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 museums | case |
| 7 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 polished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | present · passive | museums | Gold | week | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
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