Test 8 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola

"why do the raisins keep going up and down?? r they alive"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: raisins · What happens: keep, go up

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raisins	det
5	raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 down	cc
10	down	down	ADV	_	8 up	conj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	12 r	punct
12	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alive	nsubj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alive	nsubj
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present · do-support	the raisins						tree rules
2	go up in a quote	gerund	the raisins not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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, raisins are tiny animals that can swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 swim	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 swim	aux
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 animals	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	raisins	tiny animals					tree rules
2	swim	can	tiny animals						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bubbles lift them and pop off at the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lift	nsubj
2	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lift	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pop	cc
5	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lift	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 pop	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	Bubbles	them = they					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	pop off	present	Bubbles not said here			the top			vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The lemonade is boiling them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lemonade	det
2	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boiling	aux
4	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · progressive	the lemonade	them = they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument they=Patient

Option 4

Magnets in the glass pull them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 glass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Magnets	nmod
5	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	infinitive	Magnets in the glass	them = they					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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