Test 9 · ★ · Changes you can undo and changes you can't

Which of these is a change you can undo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: these, you · What happens: be, undo

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 undo	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 change	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 change	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 change	det
6	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undo	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 undo	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 undo	aux
9	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 undo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	these					of a change	tree rules
2	undo	can	you						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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

Bread being toasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 toasted	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 toasted	aux:pass
3	toasted	toast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toast	gerund · passive		Bread					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Water vapour cooling back into liquid water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vapour	compound
2	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	cooling	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 vapour	acl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 cooling	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool back	gerund	Water vapour not said here			liquid water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

A firework exploding in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 firework	det
2	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	exploding	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 firework	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exploding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	gerund	a firework not said here			the sky			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

Option 4

Paper burning to ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Paper	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ash	mark
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burning	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund	Paper not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/t9/