Test 11 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works
Hand gel left by the birthday candles. What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: problem · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: Hand gel
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Soap and why washing works» 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: Hand gel left by the birthday candles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gel | compound |
| 2 | gel | gel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gel | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 candles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 candles | det |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 candles | compound |
| 7 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Hand gel not said here | by the birthday candles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by candle=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's the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is flammable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flammable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flammable | cop |
| 3 | flammable | flammable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | flammable property | tree rules |
Option 2
It will melt into soap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 melt | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 melt | aux |
| 3 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 soap | case |
| 5 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | future | It | soap | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into soap=Product |
Option 3
It turns the cake sour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sour | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sour | compound |
| 5 | sour | sour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | the cake sour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme sour=Result |
Option 4
Nothing, it's only water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 water | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 water | advmod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | water | tree rules |
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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