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Test 6 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

Ruby finds a frosty green pebble on the beach: "is it a gem?" Most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, pebble · What happens: find, be · To what, where: frosty green pebble, beach, gem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Ruby finds a frosty green pebble on the beach: "is it a gem?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pebble	det
4	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pebble	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pebble	amod
6	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pebble	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 finds	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gem	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gem	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gem	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gem	det
15	gem	gem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 gem	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Ruby	a frosty green pebble		the beach			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent pebble=Attribute clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	pebble	a gem					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: Most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 likely	nsubj
2	likely	likely	ADV	_	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 likely	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A frozen drop of sea water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drop	det
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drop	amod
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A piece of green plastic from a toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plastic	case
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plastic	amod
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 toy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toy	det
8	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A real emerald from a sunken pirate shipwreck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 emerald	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 emerald	amod
3	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 shipwreck	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shipwreck	det
6	sunken	sunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shipwreck	amod
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shipwreck	compound
8	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emerald	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Old bottle glass rubbed by the sea for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glass	amod
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glass	compound
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 glass	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	participle		Old bottle glass not said here			year	by the sea	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by sea=Destination

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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