Test 6 · ★ · Changes you can undo and changes you can't

Why do archaeologists find so many broken pots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: archaeologists · What happens: find, break · To what, where: many broken pots

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 9 «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» 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	4 find	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	archaeologists	archaeologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pots	amod
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pots	amod
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	archaeologists	many broken pots					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Ancient people broke all of their old pots on purpose every year, for good luck

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 broke	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 pots	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pots	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pots	amod
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 luck	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 luck	case
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 luck	amod
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Ancient people	all		purpose	year	for good luck	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fired pottery does not rot or dissolve, so it lasts thousands of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pottery	amod
2	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rot	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rot	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 rot	advmod
5	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 dissolve	cc
7	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rot	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lasts	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 lasts	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lasts	nsubj
11	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rot	conj
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lasts	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fire	participle			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not rot	present · do-support	Fired pottery		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	dissolve	infinitive	Fired pottery not said here		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	last	present	pottery	thousands of years	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value

Option 3

Clay always turns into pots in soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 turns	advmod
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 pots	case
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turns	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 soil	case
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Clay			pots		in soil; always property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pot=Source in soil=Trajectory

Option 4

Pots grow in the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Pots			the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location

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