Test 9 · ★★★ · Water: the most amazing liquid
Someone says "pure water is everywhere in nature". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, pure water · What happens: say, be · To what, where: nature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Someone says "pure water is everywhere in nature".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nature | punct |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nature | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nature | cop |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 nature | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nature | case |
| 9 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nature | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | pure water | nature | everywhere property | tree rules |
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
Yes, rivers are always pure water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 water | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 water | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 pure | advmod |
| 6 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rivers | pure water | tree rules |
Option 2
Only rain is impure in nature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 rain | advmod |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impure | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impure | cop |
| 4 | impure | impure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impure | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rain | nature | impure property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, the sea is pure water with fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 water | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | cop |
| 6 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sea | pure water | with fish | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Water dissolves things, so nature's water is rarely pure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dissolves | nsubj |
| 2 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dissolves | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pure | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 pure | advmod |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pure | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pure | cop |
| 10 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 11 pure | advmod |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dissolves | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Water | things | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | nature's water | pure, rarely property | tree rules |
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