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Test 6 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid

You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, liquid · What happens: drop, float, sink · To what, where: washing liquid, floating paperclip

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: You drop washing-up liquid near a floating paperclip and it sinks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 drop	nsubj
2	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liquid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washing	compound
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 paperclip	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 paperclip	det
9	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 paperclip	amod
10	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sinks	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sinks	nsubj
13	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drop	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	You	washing liquid		a floating paperclip			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme near paperclip=Destination
2	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	present	liquid						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Soap pulls the clip down by magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clip	det
4	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 pulls	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 magnet	case
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Soap	the clip				by magnet	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme

Option 2

Soap makes the paperclip heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	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 paperclip	det
4	paperclip	paperclip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Soap	the paperclip				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paperclip=Product

Option 3

Soap makes the water much colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	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 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 colder	advmod
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Soap	the water				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Soap weakens the surface skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weakens	nsubj
2	weakens	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weakens	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weaken	present	Soap	the surface skin					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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