Test 9 · Solids, liquids and gases
Your mate says slime is just a liquid. What happens if he punches a big bowl of cornflour slime?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, slime · What happens: say, be, happen, punch · To what, where: liquid, big bowl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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 mate says slime is just a liquid.
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 | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 liquid | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 liquid | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 liquid | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 liquid | det |
| 8 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | slime | a liquid | 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 happens if he punches a big bowl of cornflour slime?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 punches | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 punches | nsubj |
| 5 | punches | punch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happens | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bowl | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bowl | amod |
| 8 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punches | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 slime | case |
| 10 | cornflour | cornflour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slime | compound |
| 11 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowl | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | punch a condition, not said to happen | present | mate | a big bowl of cornflour slime | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It goes hard under his fist
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 | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 fist | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fist | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | It | his fist | hard property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under fist=Location |
Option 2
It freezes solid and stays solid
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 | 2 freezes | nsubj |
| 2 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 freezes | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stays | cc |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 freezes | conj |
| 6 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stays | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | It | solid property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | solid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
His fist splashes right through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fist | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 splashes | nsubj |
| 3 | splashes | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 through | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 3 splashes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splash | present | His fist | through property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It turns into a cloud of gas
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 | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 cloud | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gas | case |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloud | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | It | a cloud of gas | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cloud=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cloud | gas | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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