Test 8 · Plastics: useful and stubborn

Why did people queue for hours for nylon stockings when they first came out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: queue, come out

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 queue	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 queue	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 queue	nsubj
4	queue	queue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 queue	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 stockings	case
8	nylon	nylon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stockings	compound
9	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 queue	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 queue	advcl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 queue	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	queue	past · do-support	people				hour	for nylon stockings	tree rules
2	come out	past	people					first, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nylon was a cheap, strong new silk replacement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nylon	Nylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replacement	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replacement	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 replacement	det
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replacement	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheap	punct
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replacement	amod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replacement	amod
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replacement	compound
9	replacement	replacement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nylon	a cheap strong new silk replacement					tree rules

Option 2

Nylon stockings were free on the first day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nylon	Nylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stockings	compound
2	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 free	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nylon stockings				day	free property	tree rules

Option 3

Nylon was only sold to kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nylon	Nylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sold	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sold	advmod
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 kings	case
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · passive		Nylon	kings				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to king=Recipient

Option 4

Nylon made people warmer than wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nylon	Nylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 wool	case
6	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Nylon	people				warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Product

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