Test 5 · ★ · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids
"oven cleaner's an alkali, not an acid, so it's safe on your hands innit". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: acid · What happens: be · To what, where: hands innit
This is test 5 · ★ 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: "oven cleaner's an alkali, not an acid, so it's safe on your hands innit".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 alkali | punct |
| 2 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cleaner | compound |
| 3 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alkali | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cleaner | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 alkali | det |
| 6 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 acid | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 acid | advmod |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 acid | det |
| 10 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alkali | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 safe | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 safe | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | cop |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 alkali | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 innit | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 innit | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 innit | compound |
| 19 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 safe | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 safe | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alkali | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | acid | your hands innit | safe 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, only acids can ever burn your skin, not alkalis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 burn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 acids | advmod |
| 4 | acids | acid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burn | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 burn | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 burn | advmod |
| 7 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 alkalis | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 alkalis | advmod |
| 12 | alkalis | alkalis | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 burn | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | can | acids | your skin | ever | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | not alkalis | infinitive | acids not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, alkalis are always gentle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 gentle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | alkalis | alkali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gentle | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gentle | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 gentle | advmod |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | alkalis | always, gentle property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Strong alkalis can burn worse than some acids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 alkalis | amod |
| 2 | alkalis | alkali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 burn | aux |
| 4 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | worse | badly | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 burn | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 acids | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 acids | det |
| 8 | acids | acid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | can | Strong alkalis | than some acids; badly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
No, because it's secretly an acid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 acid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 acid | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 acid | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 acid | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 acid | cop |
| 6 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 8 acid | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 acid | det |
| 8 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a acid | secretly property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/t5/