Test 6 · Solids, liquids and gases
Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?" Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 4 «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?"
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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 solid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fire | punct |
| 6 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fire | cop |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 solid | compound |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 solid | det |
| 9 | solid | solid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 liquid | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 liquid | det |
| 12 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 solid | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 gas | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gas | det |
| 15 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 solid | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | fire | 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: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Mostly glowing hot gas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 glowing | advmod |
| 2 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gas | amod |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glowing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | hot gas | mostly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |
Option 2
None, fire is not made of anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fire | punct |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 None | conj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · passive | None | of anything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 3
A liquid made of pure light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 liquid | det |
| 2 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 liquid | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 light | case |
| 5 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a liquid not said here | of pure light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4
A solid you can't touch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 solid | det |
| 2 | solid | solid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 touch | advmod |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 solid | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | can | you | a solid not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme solid=Co-Theme |
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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