Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★
A cartoon shows a cook throwing a bucket of water onto a burning chip pan, and the fire goes out at once. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, fire · What happens: show, throw, burn, go out, be · To what, where: cook, bucket, burning chip pan
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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 cartoon shows a cook throwing a bucket of water onto a burning chip pan, and the fire goes out at once.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shows | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bucket | det |
| 8 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throwing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bucket | nmod |
| 11 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 15 pan | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pan | det |
| 13 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 pan | amod |
| 14 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pan | compound |
| 15 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throwing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 goes | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 goes | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 goes | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a cook | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | a cartoon not said here | a bucket of water | a burning chip pan | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme onto pan=Destination | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go out | present | the fire | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The water would freeze the oil solid at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freeze | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 freeze | aux |
| 4 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 solid | det |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 solid | compound |
| 7 | solid | solid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freeze | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 freeze | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | would | the water | the oil solid | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient solid=Result |
Option 2
Nothing, but a bigger bucket would be better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 better | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 better | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bucket | det |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 bucket | amod |
| 6 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 better | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 better | cop |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | a bigger bucket | good property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, water puts out every kind of fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 water | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puts | nsubj |
| 4 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 puts | compound:prt |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puts | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | present | Nothing water | every kind of fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kind=Goal |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Water on burning oil throws it out in a fireball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throws | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 oil | case |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 oil | amod |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | nmod |
| 5 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 throws | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 throws | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fireball | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fireball | det |
| 10 | fireball | fireball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throws | obl |
| # | 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 | throw out | present | Water on burning oil | oil | a fireball | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fireball=Destination |
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