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Test 10 · ★★ · Mixing and dissolving

Your brother says sand dissolves if you stir long enough. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, sand, you · What happens: say, dissolve, stir, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Mixing and dissolving» 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 brother says sand dissolves if you stir long enough.

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dissolves	nsubj
5	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stir	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 stir	nsubj
8	stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dissolves	advcl
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stir	advmod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dissolve	present	sand						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stir a condition, not said to happen	present	you					long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	sand					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only on a beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 beach	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 beach	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beach	det
4	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, water cannot pull apart sand's strongly joined particles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pull	advmod
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sand	compound
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 pull	advmod
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	nsubj:pass
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 joined	aux
10	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	11 joined	advmod
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 joined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pull apart	can	water					apart property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	join	present · passive		pull sand				strongly property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, if the water is very cold and you stir it the other way round

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cold	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cold	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stir	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 stir	nsubj
11	stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stir	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stir	obl:unmarked
16	round	round	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water					cold, round property	tree rules
2	stir	present	you	water				the other way obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, after about an hour of stirring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hour	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 hour	case
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 hour	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stirring	case
8	stirring	stirring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hour	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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