Exam question 1 · The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda
Identify the gas liberated when an acid such as vinegar reacts with baking soda.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, acid · What happens: identify, liberate, react · To what, where: gas
This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gas | det |
| 3 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Identify | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reacts | mark |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 acid | det |
| 7 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reacts | nsubj |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 vinegar | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acid | nmod |
| 11 | reacts | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 soda | case |
| 13 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soda | compound |
| 14 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reacts | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the gas | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent gas=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | liberate | participle | you not said here | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | react | present | a acid such vinegar | with baking soda | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with soda=Eventuality |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Oxygen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hydrogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrogen | hydrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nitrogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nitrogen | Nitrogen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Carbon dioxide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dioxide | compound |
| 2 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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