Test 4 · Metals and what they're good for
"pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pure gold, best · What happens: be · To what, where: hardest metal
This is test 4 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: "pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 best | punct |
| 2 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gold | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 best | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 best | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 best | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 metal | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 rings | case |
| 8 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 best | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 best | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 metal | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 metal | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 metal | det |
| 13 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 metal | amod |
| 14 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 metal | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 metal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | pure gold | for rings; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the best | the hardest metal | 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: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Pure gold is soft and scratches easily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soft | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | cop |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 scratches | cc |
| 6 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soft | conj |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 scratches | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Pure gold | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scratch | present | Pure gold not said here | easily property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Pure gold never bends at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bends | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 bends | advmod |
| 4 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend | present | Pure gold | all | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Pure gold is the hardest metal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 metal | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 metal | det |
| 5 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 metal | amod |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pure gold | the hardest metal | tree rules |
Option 4
Pure gold can cut glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | can | Pure gold | glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material glass=Product |
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