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Test 8 · Dyes, inks and colouring

Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, food colouring · What happens: say, make, taste, be · To what, where: red icing taste, strawberries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 27 «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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: Ben says food colouring makes red icing taste of strawberries.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colouring	compound
4	colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 taste	amod
7	icing	icing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taste	compound
8	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 strawberries	case
10	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taste	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ben						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	food colouring	red icing taste of strawberries					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product
3	taste			strawberries					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Colouring makes icing sour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	icing	icing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 2

He's right, red always tastes of strawberry

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	_	5 red	punct
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 tastes	advmod
7	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 strawberry	case
9	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules
3	taste	present	He not said here					of strawberry; always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Colouring adds looks, not taste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 adds	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taste	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 taste	advmod
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Colouring	looks and taste					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 4

Colouring makes icing taste of beetroot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	icing	icing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	compound
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 beetroot	case
6	beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Colouring	icing taste of beetroot					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product
2	taste			beetroot					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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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