Test 9 · Plastics: useful and stubborn

"the pan's coating is so slippery, how come?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: coating · What happens: be, come

This is test 9 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slippery	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pan	det
3	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coating	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 pan	case
5	coating	coating	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slippery	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slippery	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 slippery	advmod
8	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slippery	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 slippery	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slippery	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the pan's coating					slippery property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «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

It is magnetic and pushes food away

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 magnetic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magnetic	cop
3	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pushes	cc
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magnetic	conj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					magnetic property	tree rules
2	push away	present		food				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a plastic that food cannot grip

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	4 plastic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plastic	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plastic	det
4	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grip	obj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grip	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grip	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 grip	advmod
9	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plastic	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a plastic					tree rules
2	not grip	can	food	a plastic					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Experiencer

Option 3

It is covered in a thin coat of oil

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 covered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 coat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 oil	case
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		It				in a thin coat of oil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in coat=Theme

Option 4

It is made of ice that never melts

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 melts	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 melts	advmod
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ice	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It				of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not melt	present	ice						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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