Test 3 · Separating mixtures

"why are salt pans in hot sunny places, not in rainy old Wales" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: salt pans, hot sunny places

This is test 3 of lesson 8 «Separating mixtures» 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 pans	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pans	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pans	cop
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pans	compound
5	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pans	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Wales	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 Wales	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 Wales	case
13	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Wales	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Wales	amod
15	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 places	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
17	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Wales	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		salt pans		hot sunny places			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 · ← Mova's choice

Rain makes salt explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rain	salt					tree rules
2	explode	infinitive	salt not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cold seas have no salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seas	amod
2	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 salt	det
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cold seas	no salt					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

Option 3

Salt is only ever found in the seas near the hot countries of the world

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 seas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seas	det
8	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 countries	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 countries	det
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 countries	amod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 countries	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		Salt		the seas	ever	near the hot countries of the world	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sun and warmth evaporate the water, rain keeps adding more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 evaporate	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 warmth	cc
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sun	conj
4	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evaporate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keeps	punct
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	nsubj
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evaporate	conj
10	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keeps	xcomp
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 adding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	evaporate	present	Sun and warmth	the water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	keep	present	rain		tree rules
3	add speech: assert	gerund	rain not said here	more	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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