Test 1 · Famous discoveries told as stories
Leo: "Fleming made penicillin into a medicine the very next week". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: make, be · To what, where: penicillin, medicine
This is test 1 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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: Leo: "Fleming made penicillin into a medicine the very next week".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 4 | Fleming | Fleming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | penicillin | penicillin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 medicine | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 medicine | det |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 next | advmod |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 week | amod |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | Leo | penicillin | a medicine | week | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent penicillin=Material into medicine=Product |
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 · ← Mova's choice
It was never made into a medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 medicine | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medicine | det |
| 7 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · passive | It | a medicine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into medicine=Product |
Option 2
Fleming made it from a bath sponge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleming | Fleming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sponge | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sponge | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sponge | compound |
| 7 | sponge | sponge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Fleming | it | a bath sponge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Product from sponge=Material |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Others took over ten years to make it a medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 medicine | det |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | past | Others | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Others not said here | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary medicine=Product |
Option 4
He's right, it took just one week from dish to pill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | acl:relcl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 week | nummod |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pill | mark |
| 13 | pill | pill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | dish | week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from dish=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | pill | to-infinitive | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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