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Test 10 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola

Uncle Pete is about to pop a sparkling-wine cork aimed at Grandma. What should someone say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Pete, someone · What happens: be, pop, aim, say · To what, where: wine cork · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 19 «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» 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: Uncle Pete is about to pop a sparkling-wine cork aimed at Grandma.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pete	compound
2	Pete	Pete	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 about	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pop	mark
6	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cork	det
8	sparkling	sparkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wine	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sparkling	punct
10	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cork	compound
11	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pop	obj
12	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cork	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Grandma	case
14	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 aimed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Uncle Pete					about property	tree rules
2	pop	to-infinitive	Uncle Pete not said here	a wine cork					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Patient
3	aim	participle		a wine cork not said here				at Grandma	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 should someone say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shake it first so it's gentler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shake	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Shake	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 gentler	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gentler	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gentler	cop
7	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shake	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	it				first property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	it					gentle property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Point it away, corks can hurt eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Point	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Point	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hurt	punct
5	corks	cork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurt	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Point	conj
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	hurt	can	corks	eyes					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient

Option 3

Aim it at the ceiling light instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aim	aim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Aim	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 light	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	compound
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aim	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Aim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aim	imperative	you not said here	it		the ceiling light		instead property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

It's fine, corks are soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct
5	corks	cork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 soft	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 soft	cop
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	corks					soft property	tree rules

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