Test 4 · ★ · Molecules: when atoms join up

Your gran says: "Natural is always safe, artificial is always bad." Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, Natural, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: gran · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «Molecules: when atoms join up» 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: Your gran says: "Natural is always safe, artificial is always bad."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gran	nmod:poss
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
6	Natural	Natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 safe	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bad	punct
11	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bad	amod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bad	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 bad	advmod
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 safe	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your gran		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Natural	always, safe property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Natural not said here	always, bad property	tree rules

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: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		gran			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only water is ever safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 water	advmod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	water				ever	safe property	tree rules

Option 2

She is right, because nature never makes any poisons, only people in factories do

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	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	_	8 makes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 makes	mark
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 makes	advmod
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 poisons	det
10	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 people	advmod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poisons	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 factories	case
15	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 people	nmod
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	not make	present	nature	any poisons and people in factories					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poison=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some natural things like deadly nightshade are poisonous; what matters is which and how much

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 things	det
2	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisonous	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 nightshade	case
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nightshade	amod
6	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 poisonous	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 matters	nsubj
11	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	parataxis
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 which	cop
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 matters	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 much	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poisonous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	some natural things like deadly nightshade	poisonous property	tree rules
2	matter	present			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present			tree rules
4	be		some natural things like deadly nightshade not said here		tree rules

Option 4

Artificial things are always the safest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safest	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 safest	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 safest	det
6	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Artificial things					always, safe property	tree rules

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