Test 2 · ★ · Smells that warn

Which is true about natural gas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 gas	case
5	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gas	amod
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about natural gas; true property	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

It smells of rotten eggs all by itself, straight from the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eggs	amod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smells	obl
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 itself	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 smells	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ground	punct
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 ground	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	It			the ground		of rotten eggs; by itself = it	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of egg=Theme

Option 2

It smells sweet, like flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smells	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flowers	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	It					like flowers; sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Only dogs are able to smell it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dogs	advmod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 able	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 smell	mark
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dogs					able property	tree rules
2	smell	to-infinitive	dogs not said here	it					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It has no smell until a smelly chemical is added

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 added	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chemical	det
7	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chemical	amod
8	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 added	aux:pass
10	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no smell					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present · passive		a smelly chemical					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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.

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