Test 8 · ★★ · The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda
Mia tests three amounts of soda, but uses warm vinegar for one and cold for another. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: test, use, amount, be · To what, where: three amounts, warm vinegar, soda
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» 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: Mia tests three amounts of soda, but uses warm vinegar for one and cold for another.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tests | nsubj |
| 2 | tests | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 amounts | nummod |
| 4 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tests | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soda | case |
| 6 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amounts | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uses | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 uses | cc |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tests | conj |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vinegar | amod |
| 11 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 uses | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cold | cc |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 cold | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tests | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | present | Mia | three amounts of soda | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | Mia not said here | warm vinegar | for one | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent vinegar=Theme for one=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | amount | soda | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, that's a perfect test of the soda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 test | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 test | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 test | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 test | det |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 test | amod |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soda | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soda | det |
| 10 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 test | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a perfect test | of the soda | tree rules |
Option 2
She should use more soda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 soda | amod |
| 5 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | She | more soda | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soda=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She changed two things, so it isn't fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 things | nummod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 changed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fair | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fair | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fair | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fair | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fair | advmod |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 changed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | She | two things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | fair property | tree rules |
Option 4
She should use lemon not vinegar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 vinegar | advmod |
| 6 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | She | lemon | vinegar obl | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemon=Patient |
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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