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Test 4 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

A cartoon shows rescuers cleaning an oily seabird with plain cold water. What should they use instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, rescuers · What happens: show, clean, use · To what, where: rescuers, oily seabird

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows rescuers cleaning an oily seabird with plain cold water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rescuers	acl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seabird	det
7	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seabird	amod
8	seabird	seabird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 water	case
10	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	rescuers					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescuer=Recipient
2	clean	gerund	rescuers not said here	a oily seabird				with plain cold water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent seabird=Patient with water=Instrument

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 should they use instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 use	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 use	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	should	rescuers = rescuer					instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, oil falls off by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 oil	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 falls	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	Nothing oil					by oil	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Sand, which scrubs the oil away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scrubs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scrubs	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 scrubs	nsubj
4	scrubs	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oil	det
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scrubs	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 scrubs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub away	present	Sand	the oil				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oil=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Washing-up liquid, which lifts the oil off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liquid	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct
3	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	compound
4	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lifts	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lifts	nsubj
7	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oil	det
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 lifts	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift off	present	Washing liquid	the oil					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme

Option 4

Vinegar, which dissolves the oil but also the feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolves	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dissolves	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dissolves	nsubj
4	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oil	det
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolves	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 feathers	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	10 feathers	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feathers	det
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 oil	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	Vinegar	the oil but the feathers					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient

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