Test 9 · ★ · Gases all around: breath and balloons
Pondweed in a jar on the windowsill makes bubbles all day. What happens at night?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pondweed · What happens: make, happen · To what, where: bubbles
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Pondweed in a jar on the windowsill makes bubbles all day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pondweed | pondweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 jar | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jar | det |
| 4 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pondweed | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 windowsill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windowsill | det |
| 7 | windowsill | windowsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jar | nmod |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Pondweed in a jar on the windowsill | bubbles | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |
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 happens at night?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The jar fills with water vapour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jar | det |
| 2 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fills | nsubj |
| 3 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 vapour | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vapour | compound |
| 6 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fills | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | the jar | with water vapour | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with vapour=Instrument |
Option 2
The bubbles get faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bubbles | det |
| 2 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the bubbles | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The bubbles stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bubbles | det |
| 2 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the bubbles | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The bubbles turn red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bubbles | det |
| 2 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turn | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the bubbles | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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