Test 8 · Separating mixtures

Why does the salad spinner have holes in the inner basket but not the outer bowl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: salad spinner · What happens: have · To what, where: holes, inner basket

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spinner	det
4	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spinner	compound
5	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 basket	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 basket	det
10	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 basket	amod
11	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holes	nmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 bowl	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bowl	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bowl	det
15	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bowl	amod
16	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 basket	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	the salad spinner	holes		the inner basket but the outer bowl			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

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

The holes let air dry the leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 holes	det
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the holes	air					tree rules
2	dry	infinitive	air not said here	the leaves					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient leaf=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Water escapes the basket and is caught in the bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escapes	nsubj
2	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escapes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 caught	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 escapes	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bowl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	present	Water	the basket					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme basket=Initial_Location
2	catch	present · passive	Water not said here			the bowl			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

The bowl needs no holes because it is made of plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 holes	det
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 needs	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 plastic	case
11	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the bowl	no holes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hole=Theme
2	make	present · passive		bowl				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Holes make the basket spin much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spin	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spin	compound
5	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 faster	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Holes	the basket spin				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spin=Product

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