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Test 9 · Famous discoveries told as stories

Your mate: "rubber's always been bouncy and fine, nobody had to invent anything". What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, nobody · What happens: be, have, invent · To what, where: anything

This is test 9 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: Your mate: "rubber's always been bouncy and fine, nobody had to invent anything".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bouncy	nsubj:outer
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 bouncy	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bouncy	punct
5	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bouncy	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 rubber	case
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 bouncy	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bouncy	cop
9	bouncy	bouncy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fine	cc
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bouncy	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bouncy	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 invent	mark
16	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 invent	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bouncy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	participle	Your mate					always, bouncy property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Your mate not said here						tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	nobody						tree rules
4	invent in a quote	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	anything					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Result

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

Rubber came from oil, so no change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 oil	case
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 change	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 change	det
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Rubber	no change		oil			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from oil=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Before Goodyear rubber went sticky or cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	Goodyear	goodyear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rubber	amod
3	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 cracked	cc
7	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sticky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Goodyear rubber					sticky property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crack	participle	Goodyear rubber not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rubber has never changed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 changed	advmod
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present · perfect	Rubber			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Rubber was invented in a factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 factory	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 factory	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Rubber		a factory			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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