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Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★

A Scottish gran says: «it's a dreich day, and look, me silver egg spoons have gone black. it's the rain, aye?» What is the better explanation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scottish gran, gran, it, better explanation · What happens: say, be, look, go · To what, where: dreich day, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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 Scottish gran says: «it's a dreich day, and look, me silver egg spoons have gone black. it's the rain, aye?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gran	det
2	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gran	amod
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 day	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 day	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	dreich	dreich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
17	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spoons	amod
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spoons	compound
19	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 look	advcl
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gone	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rain	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rain	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rain	det
27	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 aye	punct
29	aye	aye	INTJ	_	14 look	discourse
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a Scottish gran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	gran	a dreich day					tree rules
3	look in a quote	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	go in a quote	present · perfect	a Scottish gran = gran					black property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	it	the rain					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.

Sentence 2: What is the better explanation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 explanation	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 explanation	amod
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better explanation						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, grey weather makes silver go dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 grey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weather	amod
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	grey weather	silver					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	silver not said here					dark property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, sulphur gas from the eggs tarnished them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 gas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gas	compound
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tarnished	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eggs	det
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gas	nmod
8	tarnished	tarnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tarnished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tarnish	past	sulphur gas from the eggs	eggs = egg					tree rules

Option 3

No, the damp air is making the silver rust like iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 making	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 making	aux
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rust	det
9	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rust	amod
10	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 iron	case
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rust	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	the damp air	the silver rust				like iron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rust=Product

Option 4

Aye, rain turns silver black overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turns	xcomp
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	rain					black, overnight property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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