Test 3 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid
Stranded on a raft in a film, the hero drinks seawater "to stay alive". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero · What happens: strand, drink, stay, be · To what, where: raft, seawater
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Stranded on a raft in a film, the hero drinks seawater "to stay alive".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stranded | strand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 raft | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 raft | det |
| 4 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stranded | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 film | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stranded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drinks | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hero | det |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinks | nsubj |
| 11 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 film | acl:relcl |
| 12 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinks | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 seawater | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stay | mark |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 drinks | xcomp |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stay | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stranded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strand | participle | a raft | in a film | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink | present | the hero | seawater | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | to-infinitive | the hero not said here | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Seawater is better than rain water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Seawater | than rain water; good property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Seawater would make him thirstier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | thirstier | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | Seawater | him = he | thirsty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
Option 3
Seawater is fine if you're thirsty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 thirsty | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 thirsty | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thirsty | cop |
| 7 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fine | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Seawater | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | thirsty property | tree rules |
Option 4
Seawater is safe once it is cold enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 7 cold | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | cop |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 safe | advcl |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 cold | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Seawater | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Seawater | cold, enough property | tree rules |
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