Test 4 · ★ · Milk, cheese and yoghurt
Mum turns away from the hot milk for a minute and it rushes over the pan. Why so suddenly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, milk · What happens: turn away, rush · To what, where: hot milk, pan
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 22 «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» 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: Mum turns away from the hot milk for a minute and it rushes over the pan.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turns | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 milk | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 milk | det |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 milk | amod |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 milk | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushes | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rushes | nsubj |
| 13 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 turns | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 pan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pan | det |
| 16 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushes | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | present | Mum | the hot milk for a minute | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from milk=Source | |||
| 2 | rush | present | milk | the pan | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pan=Trajectory |
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: Why so suddenly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 suddenly | advmod |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 1 Why | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its skin trapped steam until it burst
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 steam | amod |
| 4 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skin | conj |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | burst | past | Its skin until steam and trapped steam | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The milk was secretly fizzy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 milk | det |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fizzy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fizzy | cop |
| 4 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 5 fizzy | advmod |
| 5 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the milk | fizzy, secretly property | tree rules |
Option 3
Milk boils twice as hot as water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boils | nsubj |
| 2 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 hot | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boils | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | Milk | hot property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The pan was too small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pan | det |
| 2 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pan | small property | tree rules |
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