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Test 4 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works

A cartoon shows a cube-shaped soap bubble floating across the sky. What would a real bubble do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, shaped soap bubble · What happens: show, shape, float · To what, where: shaped soap bubble, sky

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A cartoon shows a cube-shaped soap bubble floating across the sky.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bubble	det
5	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaped	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cube	punct
7	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bubble	amod
8	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bubble	compound
9	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
10	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bubble	acl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floating	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a shaped soap bubble					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bubble=Recipient
2	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	float	gerund	a shaped soap bubble not said here			the sky			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory

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 would a real bubble do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 do	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	amod
5	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	compound
6	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Burst before it can form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nsubj
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burst	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 form	aux
5	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	can	Burst before it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pull itself into a ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Pull	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ball	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	itself = it		a ball			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 3

Turn into a triangle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 triangle	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 triangle	det
4	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here			a triangle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into triangle=Trajectory

Option 4

Keep its cube shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shape	nmod:poss
3	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shape	compound
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	its cube shape					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

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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