Test 9 · Metals and what they're good for
Two bikes look the same; one is steel and one is aluminium. Which is lighter?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two bikes · What happens: look, be · To what, where: same, one steel, one aluminium
This is test 9 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: Two bikes look the same; one is steel and one is aluminium.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bikes | nummod |
| 2 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 steel | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 steel | nummod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 steel | cop |
| 9 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 aluminium | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 aluminium | nummod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 aluminium | cop |
| 13 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steel | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Two bikes | the same | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | one steel and one aluminium | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | one aluminium | 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: Which is lighter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 lighter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lighter | cop |
| 3 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lighter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | light property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The aluminium one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
It depends on the colour
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 | 2 depends | nsubj |
| 2 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 colour | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 depends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | It | on the colour | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on colour=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
They weigh the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 weigh | nsubj |
| 2 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weigh | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | They | the same | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |
Option 4
The steel one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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