Test 8 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould
A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water. What did they really use?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pirate game, sailors · What happens: say, keep, do, use · To what, where: meat, barrels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A pirate game says sailors kept meat fresh for months in barrels of sugar water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 barrels | case |
| 12 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | compound |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 barrels | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a pirate game | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | sailors | meat | barrels of sugar water | month | fresh property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in barrel=Location |
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 did they really use?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 use | advmod |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | use | present | sailors = sailor | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sugar water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | compound |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ice from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 home | case |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fresh river water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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