Test 3 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works
Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner". What happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Little cousin · What happens: be, put, make, happen · To what, where: washing liquid, dishwasher, liquid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Little cousin is about to put washing-up liquid in the dishwasher "to make it cleaner".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cousin | amod |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liquid | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | compound |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dishwasher | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dishwasher | det |
| 13 | dishwasher | dishwasher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Little cousin | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Little cousin not said here | washing liquid | the dishwasher | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme in dishwasher=Destination | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | liquid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary cleaner=Product |
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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The dishes come out extra clean and shiny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dishes | det |
| 2 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shiny | cc |
| 8 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clean | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | the dishes | clean, extra, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Foam overflows out of the machine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overflows | nsubj |
| 2 | overflows | overflow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 machine | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 machine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 machine | det |
| 6 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overflows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overflow | present | Foam | the machine | tree rules |
Option 3
The machine works twice as fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 machine | det |
| 2 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | nsubj |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 works | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 works | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | the machine | fast, twice property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing happens at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Nothing | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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