Test 5 · Metals and what they're good for
A British penny from 2010 sticks to your magnet. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: British penny · What happens: stick
This is test 5 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: A British penny from 2010 sticks to your magnet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penny | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penny | amod |
| 3 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sticks | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 2010 | case |
| 5 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 penny | nmod |
| 6 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 magnet | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 magnet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sticks | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sticks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | present | a British penny from 2010 | to your magnet | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to magnet=Co-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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The magnet is made of copper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magnet | det |
| 2 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 copper | case |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the magnet | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 2
Copper is very strongly magnetic indeed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 magnetic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 magnetic | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 magnetic | advmod |
| 4 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 5 magnetic | advmod |
| 5 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 magnetic | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Copper | indeed, magnetic, strongly property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is steel with a thin copper coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 steel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 steel | cop |
| 3 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 coat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coat | amod |
| 7 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coat | compound |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | steel | with a thin copper coat | tree rules |
Option 4
It is a fake coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coin | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coin | det |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coin | amod |
| 5 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a fake coin | tree rules |
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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