Test 5 · ★ · Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow

If you dropped universal indicator into lemon juice and then into bleach, what would you see?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: drop, see · To what, where: universal indicator, lemon juice

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 17 «Indicators: the red-cabbage rainbow» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 dropped	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 indicator	amod
5	indicator	indicator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 juice	case
7	lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 juice	compound
8	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bleach	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 bleach	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 bleach	case
12	bleach	bleach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 juice	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 juice	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	you	universal indicator		lemon juice and bleach			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent indicator=Theme into juice=Destination
2	see	would	you	lemon juice and bleach					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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

The cups would start fizzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cups	det
2	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fizzing	fizz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the cups						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fizz	gerund	the cups not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No colour at all both times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 colour	nmod
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 times	det
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colour	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two very different colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 colours	nummod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 different	advmod
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colours	amod
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The same colour both times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 times	det
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colour	obl:unmarked

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

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