Test 1 · ★ · Colours of fire: fireworks
Sam's big brother says red fireworks are red because there's red paint inside. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big brother, red fireworks, red paint · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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: Sam's big brother says red fireworks are red because there's red paint inside.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fireworks | amod |
| 7 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 red | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 red | cop |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 's | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 's | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 red | advcl |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 paint | amod |
| 14 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 's | nsubj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 12 's | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sam's big brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | red fireworks | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | red paint | there | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
The red comes from hot red smoke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 red | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 smoke | case |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smoke | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smoke | amod |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the red | hot red smoke | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from smoke=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The red comes from a metal, strontium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 red | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 metal | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 metal | det |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strontium | punct |
| 8 | strontium | strontium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metal | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the red | a metal and strontium | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from metal=Initial_Location |
Option 3
The red is the colour of the fire itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 red | det |
| 2 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colour | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 colour | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colour | nmod |
| 9 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 fire | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the red | the colour | of the fire red | tree rules |
Option 4
He's right, the paint glows when it burns
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 | _ | 7 glows | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paint | det |
| 6 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glows | nsubj |
| 7 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 burns | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burns | nsubj |
| 10 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 glows | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | present | the paint | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burn | present | paint | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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