Test 2 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

"why's milk white anyway, it's just water innit" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: milk · What happens: be · To what, where: water innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 7 «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 white	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	obl:unmarked
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 white	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 innit	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 innit	advmod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 answer	punct
14	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 answer	amod
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						milk obl:unmarked; anyway, white property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	milk	water innit and Best answer					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.

The options

Option 1

Cows only drink white water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Cows	white water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2

It is white because it is cold

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	3 white	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 white	cop
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 cold	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					white property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 3

It has white paint added to it at the farm before it is bottled

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paint	amod
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 paint	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 added	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 farm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farm	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 added	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 bottled	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bottled	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bottled	aux:pass
14	bottled	bottle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 added	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	It	white paint			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient
2	add speech: assert	participle		white paint not said here	paint	the farm	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	bottle	present · passive		paint			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is an emulsion: tiny fat drops in water scatter light

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	4 emulsion	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 emulsion	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 emulsion	det
4	emulsion	emulsion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 drops	punct
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drops	amod
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drops	compound
8	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 emulsion	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drops	nmod
11	scatter	scat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drops	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a emulsion					tree rules

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