Test 10 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

"opened the jam months ago, it's still fine coz jam lasts forever"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: open, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 months	det
4	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 months	compound
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 opened	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lasts	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lasts	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lasts	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	14 lasts	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jam	amod
12	coz	coz	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jam	amod
13	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lasts	nsubj
14	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 lasts	advmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lasts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	past						ago property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	it				still	forever, last property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Jam truly never goes off once it's made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
2	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 goes	advmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 goes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	present	Jam					truly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	make	present · passive		Jam					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Opened jam still goes mouldy eventually

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 jam	amod
2	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	xcomp
6	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	participle							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	Opened jam				still	eventually, mouldy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only strawberry jam goes off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 jam	advmod
2	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jam	compound
3	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present	strawberry jam						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Jam turns into honey over time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 honey	case
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Jam			honey	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into honey=Trajectory

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