Test 2 · Metals and what they're good for
Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!" What should he use?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: stir, yelp, use · To what, where: pan, bloody handle
This is test 2 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: Dad stirs the pan with a metal spoon and yelps: "bloody handle's red hot!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stirs | nsubj |
| 2 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pan | det |
| 4 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stirs | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spoon | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spoon | det |
| 7 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoon | compound |
| 8 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stirs | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yelps | cc |
| 10 | yelps | yelp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stirs | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 handle | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 handle | punct |
| 13 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 handle | amod |
| 14 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yelps | obj |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 handle | case |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hot | amod |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 handle | amod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 hot | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | present | Dad | the pan | with a metal spoon | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pan=Patient with spoon=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | yelp | present | Dad not said here | bloody handle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |
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 should he use?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 use | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | Dad | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
A wet metal spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spoon | det |
| 2 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoon | amod |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | compound |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A thinner metal spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spoon | det |
| 2 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 spoon | amod |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoon | compound |
| 4 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A gold spoon, which never gets hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoon | compound |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 gets | advmod |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present | a gold spoon | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A wooden spoon, which stays cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoon | amod |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stays | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stays | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stays | nsubj |
| 6 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stays | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a wooden spoon | cool property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/t2/