Test 7 · Elements and the famous members of the periodic table
A diamond is thrown into a very hot furnace. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: throw, happen · To what, where: diamond, hot furnace
This is test 7 of lesson 2 «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» 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: A diamond is thrown into a very hot furnace.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diamond | det |
| 2 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | aux:pass |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 furnace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 furnace | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 furnace | amod |
| 9 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | a diamond | into a hot furnace result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into furnace=Result |
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 could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing at all, because diamonds can never change in any way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 change | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 change | mark |
| 6 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 change | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 change | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 change | advmod |
| 9 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | can | diamonds | any way | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can burn, because it is just carbon like coal
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 burn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 burn | aux |
| 3 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carbon | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 carbon | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carbon | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carbon | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 carbon | advmod |
| 9 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burn | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 coal | case |
| 11 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carbon | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | can | It | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | carbon | like coal | tree rules |
Option 3
It would melt into glass
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 melt | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 melt | aux |
| 3 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 glass | case |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | would | It | glass | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into glass=Product |
Option 4
It would turn into gold
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 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | It | gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gold=Trajectory |
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