Test 11 · ★★ · The air we breathe
In an old diving bell, people kept dry under water. How?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: keep · To what, where: old diving bell
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The air we breathe» 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: In an old diving bell, people kept dry under water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 bell | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bell | amod |
| 4 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bell | compound |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bell | punct |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | people | a old diving bell | under water; dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bell=Location |
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: How?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Air trapped inside kept the water out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Air | acl |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 trapped | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 kept | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | Air not said here | inside property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep out | past | Air | the water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 2
The water was frozen solid all around it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frozen | aux:pass |
| 4 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frozen | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 frozen | advmod |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frozen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | the water | it | all, solid property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Magnets pushed the water away from it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | past | Magnets | the water | water | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme from it=Trajectory |
Option 4
The bell was filled with dry sponges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bell | det |
| 2 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sponges | case |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sponges | amod |
| 7 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the bell | with dry sponges | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sponge=Instrument |
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