Test 11 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid

If you sealed a jar of water and left it in the sun, why would drops form on the lid?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, drops · What happens: seal, leave, form · To what, where: jar, sun, lid

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Water: the most amazing liquid» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 sealed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sealed	nsubj
3	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sealed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sealed	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 form	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 form	advmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 form	aux
17	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 form	nsubj
18	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 lid	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lid	det
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 form	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seal	past	you	a jar of water		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Patient
2	leave	past	you not said here	jar	the sun	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sun=Location
3	form	would	drops		the lid	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lid=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.

The options

Option 1

The lid sweats like a person does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweats	nsubj
3	sweats	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 does	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sweats	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweat	present	the lid						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	a person						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water evaporates and condenses on the cooler lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evaporates	nsubj
2	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 condenses	cc
4	condenses	condense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 evaporates	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 lid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
7	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 lid	amod
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condenses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evaporate	present	Water						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	condense	present	Water not said here			the cooler lid			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Rain gets in through the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 gets	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	present	Rain			the glass			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through glass=Destination

Option 4

The lid melts in the sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	nsubj
3	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sunshine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sunshine	det
6	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	the lid			the sunshine			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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