Test 11 · ★ · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids
"baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupboard". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baking soda, they · What happens: taste, be · To what, where: lemon, cupboard
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 16 «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» 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: "baking soda tastes sour like lemon, right? they're both in the cupboard".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 2 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soda | compound |
| 3 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tastes | nsubj |
| 4 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tastes | xcomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 lemon | discourse |
| 7 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tastes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lemon | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 tastes | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cupboard | nsubj |
| 12 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cupboard | cop |
| 13 | both | both | ADV | _ | 16 cupboard | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cupboard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cupboard | det |
| 16 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tastes | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cupboard | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste in a quote | present | baking soda | lemon | sour property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme lemon=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | they | the cupboard | both property | tree rules |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, both are acids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 acids | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 acids | det |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 acids | cop |
| 5 | acids | acid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | both acids | tree rules |
Option 2
No, baking soda has no taste at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soda | compound |
| 4 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 taste | det |
| 7 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 taste | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | baking soda | no taste | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, it tastes bitter and soapy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 tastes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tastes | nsubj |
| 4 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tastes | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 soapy | cc |
| 7 | soapy | soapy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bitter | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | present | it | bitter property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, but it's a bit weaker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 weaker | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 weaker | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 weaker | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weaker | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weaker | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | a bit obl:unmarked; weak property | tree rules |
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