Test 3 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola
Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz". Does it work?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, fizz · What happens: squeeze, close, keep, work · To what, where: empty bottle, bottle, fizz
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Dad squeezes the half-empty bottle before closing it "to keep the fizz".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezes | nsubj |
| 2 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 empty | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bottle | amod |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezes | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 closing | mark |
| 9 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 squeezes | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 closing | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 closing | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fizz | det |
| 15 | fizz | fizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeezes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | Dad | the empty bottle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | gerund | Dad not said here | bottle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | Dad not said here | the fizz | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fizz=Theme |
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: Does it work?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 work | nsubj |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · do-support | fizz | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but only overnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 overnight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 overnight | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 overnight | advmod |
| 5 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, it keeps every bit of the fizz in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 keeps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fizz | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fizz | det |
| 9 | fizz | fizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 keeps | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in | present | it | every bit of the fizz | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
Option 3
No, it makes the bottle explode open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | explode | explode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | it | the bottle | open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | explode | present | the bottle not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, the gas still fills the space
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 fills | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gas | det |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fills | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 fills | advmod |
| 6 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 space | det |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fills | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | the gas | the space | still | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
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