Test 4 · Famous discoveries told as stories

If Mendeleev hadn't left gaps in his table, what would have been harder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mendeleev, gaps · What happens: not leave, be · To what, where: gaps, table

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
2	Mendeleev	Mendeleev	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 table	nmod:poss
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gaps	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 harder	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 harder	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 harder	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 harder	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 harder	cop
15	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 gaps	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	past · perfect	Mendeleev	gaps		Mendeleev's table			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gap=Theme in table=Location
2	is	would · perfect	gaps					hard 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Naming oxygen and hydrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naming	name	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naming	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hydrogen	cc
4	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oxygen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	gerund		oxygen and hydrogen					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Predicting elements nobody had found yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predicting	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 elements	amod
2	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nobody	compound
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 found	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict	gerund							vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	find	past · perfect	nobody				yet		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Writing on cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 cards	case
3	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund				cards			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on card=Destination

Option 4

Counting up all of the known elements one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 one	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Counting	compound:prt
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 elements	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elements	det
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 elements	amod
7	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 all	nmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count up	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	know	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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