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Test 5 · Famous discoveries told as stories

A burnt log seems to "disappear" into a small pile of ash. What would Lavoisier say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: burnt log, Lavoisier · What happens: seem, disappear, say · To what, where: small pile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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 burnt log seems to "disappear" into a small pile of ash.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
2	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 log	amod
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seems	nsubj
4	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 disappear	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 disappear	punct
7	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seems	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 disappear	punct
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 pile	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pile	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pile	amod
12	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappear	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 ash	case
14	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pile	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seems	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	a burnt log						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	disappear in a quote	to-infinitive	a burnt log not said here			a small pile of ash			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 would Lavoisier say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Lavoisier	Lavoisier	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Lavoisier						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Burning makes matter vanish forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	matter	mat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 vanish	amod
4	vanish	vanish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present		matter vanish				forever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vanish=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The rest went into the air as gas; nothing is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 gas	case
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 lost	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the rest			the air		as gas	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
2	lose	present · passive		nothing					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

It really disappeared into nothing

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	3 disappeared	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 disappeared	advmod
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 disappeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	It			nothing			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The ash weighs exactly the same as the log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ash	det
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weighs	nsubj
3	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weighs	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 log	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 log	det
9	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	the ash	the same					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value

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