Test 11 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

Why can you not just put a clay pot from the art class into the kiln wet and soggy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not put · To what, where: clay pot, art class

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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	6 put	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 put	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pot	det
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pot	compound
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 class	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 class	det
12	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 class	compound
13	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 kiln	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kiln	det
16	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kiln	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soggy	cc
19	soggy	soggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wet	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	can	you	a clay pot		the art class		into the kiln	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal

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 kiln would turn it to mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kiln	det
2	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 mud	mark
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the kiln	it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Wet clay turns into glass in the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 glass	case
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 heat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heat	det
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Wet clay			glass		in the heat	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into glass=Source in heat=Trajectory

Option 3

Wet clay never gets hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 gets	advmod
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	Wet clay					hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It must dry first or it may crack

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 dry	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	aux
3	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 dry	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 crack	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crack	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 crack	aux
8	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	must	It					first property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	crack	may	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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