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Test 5 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works

Josh says lots of foam means the washing-up liquid is working harder. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, lots, washing liquid · What happens: say, mean, work, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Josh says lots of foam means the washing-up liquid is working harder.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 foam	case
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 liquid	det
8	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 liquid	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washing	compound
11	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 working	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 working	aux
13	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp
14	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 working	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Josh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	lots of foam						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	work	present · progressive	the washing liquid					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He's right, foam does the cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 does	punct
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cleaning	det
8	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	do	present	foam	the cleaning					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality

Option 2

Foam is just water and air with no soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 air	cc
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 soap	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 soap	det
9	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Foam	water and air				with no soap	tree rules

Option 3

More foam makes plates greasier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 foam	amod
2	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	greasier	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	More foam	plates				greasy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plate=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The soap cleans whether there's foam or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soap	det
2	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleans	nsubj
3	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 foam	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	's	PART	_	7 foam	punct
7	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleans	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 not	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 foam	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	the soap	foam					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foam=Patient

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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