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Test 2 · Famous discoveries told as stories

A cartoon alchemist turns a lead pipe into gold with a potion. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon alchemist · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: lead pipe, gold

This is test 2 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: A cartoon alchemist turns a lead pipe into gold with a potion.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 alchemist	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alchemist	compound
3	alchemist	alchemist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pipe	det
6	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pipe	compound
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 potion	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 potion	det
12	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a cartoon alchemist	a lead pipe		gold		with a potion	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme into gold=Trajectory

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

It works only with very old lead

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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 lead	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 lead	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lead	amod
7	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					with old lead	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lead=Co-Agent

Option 2

It works if the potion is strong enough

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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 strong	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 potion	det
5	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strong	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	cop
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 works	advcl
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the potion					enough, strong property	tree rules

Option 3

It works on a full moon only

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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 moon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moon	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	2 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					on a full moon	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on moon=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chemistry cannot change lead into gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	can	Chemistry	lead				into gold result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent lead=Patient into gold=Result

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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