Test 9 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola
Someone says fizzy spring water must have been fizzed in a factory. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone · What happens: say, fizz, be · To what, where: fizzy spring water, factory · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Someone says fizzy spring water must have been fizzed in a factory.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 water | compound |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fizzed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fizzed | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fizzed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fizzed | aux:pass |
| 9 | fizzed | fizz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 factory | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 factory | det |
| 12 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fizzed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fizz | must · perfect · passive | fizzy spring water | a factory | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Spring water can never hold gas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | compound |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hold | advmod |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hold | can | Spring water | gas | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Some springs are fizzy naturally from gas underground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 springs | det |
| 2 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fizzy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fizzy | cop |
| 4 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 4 fizzy | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 gas | case |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fizzy | obl |
| 8 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 4 fizzy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some springs | gas | fizzy, naturally, underground property | tree rules |
Option 3
The fizz comes from fish in the spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fizz | det |
| 2 | fizz | fizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the fizz | spring | from fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fish=Initial_Location |
Option 4
All fizzy water comes from machines in a big factory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 water | det |
| 2 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 machines | case |
| 6 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comes | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 factory | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 factory | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 factory | amod |
| 10 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | all fizzy water | machines | in a big factory | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from machine=Initial_Location |
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