Test 9 · ★★ · The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda

"sherbet's been in me pocket all day and hasn't fizzed, is it dead?"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sherbet, me pocket · What happens: be, not fizz · To what, where: me pocket

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pocket	punct
2	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pocket	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 pocket	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pocket	compound
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dead	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fizzed	cc
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fizzed	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fizzed	advmod
13	fizzed	fizz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 day	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pocket	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dead	nsubj
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 dead	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sherbet	me pocket	day		tree rules
2	not fizz in a quote	present · perfect	sherbet not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	me pocket			dead 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, pockets kill sherbet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	nsubj
4	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	pockets	sherbet					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sherbet=Theme

Option 2

Yes, sherbet goes off in an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present	sherbet				hour		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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

No, it only fizzes when wet in your mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fizzes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fizzes	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 fizzes	advmod
5	fizzes	fizz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fizzes	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fizzes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fizz	present	it			your mouth		wet property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location

Option 4

No, it fizzes only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fizzes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fizzes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fizzes	nsubj
4	fizzes	fizz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fizzes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fizz	present	it				night		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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