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Test 4 · ★ · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids

Jake's gardening dad is about to lime the blueberry bed. What should someone tell him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardening dad, someone · What happens: be, lime, tell · To what, where: blueberry bed, Jake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Jake's gardening dad is about to lime the blueberry bed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	gardening	gardening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dad	compound
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 about	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lime	mark
8	lime	lime	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
10	blueberry	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bed	compound
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lime	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 about	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jake's gardening dad					about property	tree rules
2	lime	to-infinitive	Jake's gardening dad not said here	the blueberry bed					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 should someone tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	someone		Jake				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Lime makes blueberries grow twice as big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 big	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Lime	blueberries					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	blueberries not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Blueberries need bleach, not lime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bleach	bleach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lime	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 lime	advmod
6	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bleach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Blueberries	bleach and lime					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bleach=Theme

Option 3

Lime is fine for every plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lime					for every plant; fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blueberries like acidic soil, so don't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blueberries	blueberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 soil	case
3	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blueberries	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	Blueberries like acidic soil						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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