Test 6 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

"frozen chicken's been in the freezer ages so the germs are all dead, right?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frozen chicken · What happens: freeze, be · To what, where: freezer ages

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	15 dead	punct
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chicken	amod
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dead	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 dead	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 ages	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ages	det
8	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ages	compound
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dead	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 dead	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 germs	det
12	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dead	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	15 dead	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	frozen chicken				in the freezer ages	all, dead 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

Yes, but only after a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 year	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 year	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, freezing kills every germ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 germ	det
6	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	freezing	every germ					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

No, freezing makes germs grow faster and faster in the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 freezing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 faster	cc
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 faster	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	freezing	germs		the cold			tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	germs not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, freezing mostly stops germs but doesn't kill them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 freezing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 freezing	punct
3	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stops	advcl
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 stops	advmod
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stops	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 kill	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kill	advmod
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stops	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	freeze	gerund			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stop	present	germs	mostly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality germ=Eventuality
3	not kill	present · do-support	germs = germ		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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