Test 8 · Acids in the kitchen
In a cartoon, a hero drinks car-battery acid "for energy". What's wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: car battery acid, cartoon
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a hero drinks car-battery acid "for energy".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drinks | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drinks | nsubj |
| 7 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acid | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 car | punct |
| 10 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acid | compound |
| 11 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drinks | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 acid | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 energy | case |
| 14 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drinks | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 energy | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | a hero | car battery acid | a cartoon | for energy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Patient |
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 wrong with that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, battery acid is just like a sharp lemonade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 acid | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acid | compound |
| 4 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lemonade | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lemonade | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 lemonade | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 lemonade | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lemonade | det |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lemonade | amod |
| 10 | lemonade | lemonade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing battery acid | like a sharp lemonade | tree rules |
Option 2
It would only taste a little sour
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 taste | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 taste | advmod |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sour | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sour | amod |
| 7 | sour | sour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | would | It | a little sour | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme sour=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Strong acid would badly burn the mouth and throat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 acid | amod |
| 2 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burn | aux |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 burn | advmod |
| 5 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouth | det |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throat | cc |
| 9 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mouth | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | would | Strong acid | the mouth and throat | badly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
Option 4
It would make him glow in the dark
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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dark | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | It | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | infinitive | him = he not said here | the dark | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
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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