Test 1 · Metals and what they're good for
Zoe: "magnets stick to all metal, that's what makes it metal". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zoe, that · What happens: stick, be, make · To what, where: metal
This is test 1 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» 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: Zoe: "magnets stick to all metal, that's what makes it metal".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| 4 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stick | nsubj |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 metal | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 metal | det |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stick | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick in a quote | present | Zoe | to all metal | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to metal=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | metal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary metal=Product |
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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only gold and silver are magnetic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 gold | advmod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 magnetic | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 silver | cc |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 magnetic | cop |
| 6 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | gold and silver | magnetic property | tree rules |
Option 2
Metals are magnetic only when hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 magnetic | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 magnetic | cop |
| 3 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magnetic | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Metals | hot, magnetic property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Only a few metals, like iron, are magnetic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 metals | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 metals | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 metals | amod |
| 4 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 magnetic | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 iron | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 iron | case |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 metals | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 metals | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 magnetic | cop |
| 10 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a few metals like iron | magnetic property | tree rules |
Option 4
She's right, every metal is magnetic
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 | 's | 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 magnetic | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 metal | det |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 magnetic | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 magnetic | cop |
| 8 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every metal | magnetic property | tree rules |
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