Test 6 · Separating mixtures

"mud in this jar's taking ages to sink, can I speed it up" Which of these would actually help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mud, I · What happens: take, sink, speed up, help · To what, where: ages, mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	_	7 taking	punct
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 jar	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mud	nmod
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 taking	aux
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 speed	csubj
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taking	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sink	mark
10	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taking	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taking	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speed	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 speed	nsubj
14	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 speed	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 speed	compound:prt
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
18	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 help	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 these	case
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 Which	nmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
22	actually	actually	ADV	_	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 speed	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 speed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present · progressive	mud in this jar	ages		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent age=Theme clause=Attribute
2	sink in a quote	to-infinitive	mud in this jar not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	speed up in a quote	can	I	mud		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	help	would			actually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Stirring it every minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stirring	obj
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 minute	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stirring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	gerund		it			minute		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2

Shaking the jar very hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jar	det
3	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Shaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		the jar				hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jar=Patient

Option 3

Adding more mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 mud	amod
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		more mud					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Spinning it fast, as hospitals spin blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spin	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spinning	obj
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Spinning	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spin	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 spin	mark
6	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spin	nsubj
7	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund		it				fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	spin	present	hospitals	blood					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme

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