Test 6 · Acids in the kitchen

Why are some old stone statues losing their faces?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old stone statues · What happens: lose · To what, where: faces

This is test 6 of lesson 15 «Acids in the kitchen» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 losing	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 losing	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 statues	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 statues	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 statues	compound
6	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 losing	nsubj
7	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 faces	nmod:poss
9	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 losing	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 losing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · progressive	some old stone statues	statues's faces					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality

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

Birds pecked their faces off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pecked	nsubj
2	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 faces	nmod:poss
4	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pecked	obj
5	off	off	ADV	_	2 pecked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck off	past	Birds	Birds's faces				off property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Acid rain slowly ate away the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rain	compound
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat away	past	Acid rain	the stone				away, slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

Option 3

People kept rubbing them for luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rubbing	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbing	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 luck	case
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	People						tree rules
2	rub	gerund	People not said here	People				for luck	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

The stone slowly melted away in the hot summers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	nsubj:pass
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 melted	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 summers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 summers	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 summers	amod
9	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	participle · passive		the stone			summer	away, slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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