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Test 5 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

A wizard in a cartoon turns sand into glass just by waving a wand. What does it really take?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wizard, it · What happens: turn, wave, take · To what, where: sand, glass, wand

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A wizard in a cartoon turns sand into glass just by waving a wand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wizard	det
2	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cartoon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cartoon	det
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wizard	nmod
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 glass	case
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 waving	advmod
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 waving	mark
12	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 turns	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wand	det
14	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waving	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a wizard in a cartoon	sand		glass			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sand=Theme into glass=Trajectory
2	wave	gerund	a wizard in a cartoon not said here	a wand					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=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.

Sentence 2: What does it really take?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 take	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	it						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

Squeezing sand very, very hard by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hard	csubj
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeezing	obj
3	very	very	ADV	_	1 Squeezing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Squeezing	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	gerund		sand					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

Option 2

Leaving sand out in the hot sun for a whole day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Leaving	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sun	amod
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	gerund		sand		the hot sun	day		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Melting sand with other things at great heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melting	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Melting	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 heat	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heat	amod
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund		sand				with other things at great heat	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sand=Patient with thing=Instrument

Option 4

Mixing sand with cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mixing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mixing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	gerund		sand				with cold water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient with water=Co-Patient

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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