Test 10 · Plastics: useful and stubborn

If a plastic lunchbox is left on a hot car dashboard all day, what might happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: leave, happen · To what, where: plastic lunchbox, hot car dashboard

This is test 10 of lesson 29 «Plastics: useful and stubborn» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 left	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lunchbox	det
3	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lunchbox	amod
4	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 happen	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 dashboard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dashboard	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dashboard	amod
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dashboard	compound
11	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a plastic lunchbox		a hot car dashboard	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on dashboard=Location
2	happen	might							vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It may soften and bend out of shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 soften	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 soften	aux
3	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bend	cc
5	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 soften	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 shape	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 shape	case
8	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	may	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bend	infinitive				shape			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out shape=Location

Option 2

It will start to rot like fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rot	mark
5	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	future	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rot	to-infinitive						like fruit	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It will turn into glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 glass	case
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It			glass			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into glass=Trajectory

Option 4

It will get stronger and harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 harder	cc
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stronger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	It					strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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