Test 9 · ★★ · The air we breathe
Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans. What's in the air?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fever mate, mate, he · What happens: sneeze, be, moan · To what, where: air
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Your hay-fever mate sneezes all spring. "it's the air", he moans.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 hay | punct |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | compound |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sneezes | nsubj |
| 6 | sneezes | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 spring | det |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sneezes | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sneezes | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 air | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 air | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sneezes | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moans | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 moans | nsubj |
| 18 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sneezes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sneezes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneeze | present | Your fever mate | spring | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | mate | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | moan | present | he | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 in the air?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Ozone from the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ozone | ozone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ozone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Carbon dioxide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dioxide | compound |
| 2 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Too much nitrogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nitrogen | amod |
| 3 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Pollen from plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 plants | case |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pollen | nmod |
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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