Test 9 · Acids in the kitchen

Which tastes most sour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: taste

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 tastes	nsubj
2	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sour	amod
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tastes	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tastes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present						sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

A spoonful of plain rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spoonful	det
2	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rice	case
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rice	amod
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoonful	nmod

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

Option 2

A slice of white bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slice	det
2	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bread	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slice			white bread					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An unripe green plum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plum	det
2	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plum	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plum	amod
4	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A ripe, sweet yellow banana

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 banana	det
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 banana	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ripe	punct
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 banana	amod
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 banana	amod
6	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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