Test 8 · ★ · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids
A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water. What would actually cancel the acid?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: game, wizard · What happens: show, fight, cancel · To what, where: wizard, acid monster, acid
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A game shows a wizard fighting an acid monster with a "neutral potion" of water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wizard | det |
| 5 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 wizard | acl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 monster | det |
| 8 | acid | acid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monster | amod |
| 9 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 potion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 potion | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 potion | punct |
| 13 | neutral | neutral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 potion | amod |
| 14 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 potion | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 potion | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a game | a wizard | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | a wizard not said here | a acid monster | with a neutral potion of water | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Co-Agent |
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 would actually cancel the acid?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cancel | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cancel | aux |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 4 cancel | advmod |
| 4 | cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 acid | det |
| 6 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cancel | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cancel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cancel | would | the acid | actually property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Pure sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sugar | amod |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An alkali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 alkali | det |
| 2 | alkali | alkali | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
More acid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 acid | amod |
| 2 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A metal sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sword | compound |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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