Test 3 · ★ · Gases all around: breath and balloons
The party planner wants to release 100 balloons into the sky. What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: party planner, problem · What happens: want, release, be · To what, where: 100 balloons, sky
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 20 «Gases all around: breath and balloons» 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: The party planner wants to release 100 balloons into the sky.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 planner | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planner | compound |
| 3 | planner | planner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 release | mark |
| 6 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 balloons | nummod |
| 8 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 release | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 release | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the party planner | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | release not said to happen | to-infinitive | the party planner not said here | 100 balloons | the sky | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer balloon=Source |
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 the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, balloons vanish in the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 balloons | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanish | nsubj |
| 4 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanish | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | Nothing balloons | the sky | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They come down and can harm animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 harm | cc |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 harm | aux |
| 6 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 come | conj |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 harm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | present | They | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | harm | can | They not said here | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
Option 3
They will burst the clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | aux |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burst | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | future | They | the clouds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme |
Option 4
They will block aeroplanes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 block | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 block | aux |
| 3 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | aeroplanes | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 block | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | future | They | aeroplanes | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer aeroplane=Theme |
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