Test 5 · ★★ · Mixing and dissolving
Your cousin pours ground coffee into hot water and wonders why it is gritty. What is the reason?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, reason · What happens: pour, wonder, be · To what, where: ground coffee, hot water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 cousin pours ground coffee into hot water and wonders why it is gritty.
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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pours | nsubj |
| 3 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coffee | compound |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pours | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pours | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wonders | cc |
| 10 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pours | conj |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 gritty | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gritty | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gritty | cop |
| 14 | gritty | gritty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wonders | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pours | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | present | Your cousin | ground coffee | hot water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | Your cousin not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | cousin | gritty property | 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 reason?
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 | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the reason | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He used too little water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 little | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | He | little water | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
Option 2
Ground coffee only dissolves properly in water that is ice cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coffee | compound |
| 2 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dissolves | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 dissolves | advmod |
| 4 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 4 dissolves | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dissolves | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cold | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cold | cop |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | compound |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Ground coffee | water | properly property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | water | cold property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ground coffee does not fully dissolve, it needs a filter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coffee | compound |
| 2 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dissolve | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dissolve | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dissolve | advmod |
| 5 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 6 dissolve | advmod |
| 6 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dissolve | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 filter | det |
| 11 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dissolve | present · do-support | Ground coffee | fully property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | present | coffee | a filter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filter=Theme |
Option 4
The cup was not stirred clockwise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stirred | advmod |
| 5 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | clockwise | clockwise | ADV | _ | 5 stirred | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stir | past · passive | the cup | clockwise property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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