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Test 4 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid

"just boil the sea water then, sorted". Why doesn't that make it drinkable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, that · What happens: boil, not make · To what, where: sea water, water

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: "just boil the sea water then, sorted".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boil	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 boil	advmod
3	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boil	obj
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 boil	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sorted	punct
9	sorted	sorted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boil	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sorted	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 boil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the sea water			then		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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: Why doesn't that make it drinkable?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	drinkable	drinkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	that	water				drinkable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Boiling makes it into tap water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Boiling	it		tap water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into water=Product

Option 2

Boiling makes the salt float away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salt	det
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Boiling	the salt					tree rules
2	float away	present	the salt not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Boiling kills germs but leaves the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 leaves	cc
5	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kills	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 salt	det
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Boiling	germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	leave	present	Boiling not said here	the salt					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme

Option 4

Boiling turns all of the salt into sugar instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 salt	det
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 salt	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salt	det
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 sugar	case
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Boiling	all salt		sugar		instead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into sugar=Trajectory

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