Test 7 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles
A drink bottle on a garden shed shelf is half full of blue liquid. What is the safest thought?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: drink bottle · What happens: be, think
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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
Sentence 1: A drink bottle on a garden shed shelf is half full of blue liquid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | compound |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shelf | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shelf | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shed | compound |
| 7 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shelf | compound |
| 8 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottle | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 10 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 full | advmod |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 liquid | case |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 liquid | amod |
| 14 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a drink bottle on a shed shelf | of blue liquid; full, half 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.
Sentence 2: What is the safest thought?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 safest | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 safest | det |
| 4 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 safest | acl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 safest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It might be a chemical, so leave it
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 | 5 chemical | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 chemical | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chemical | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chemical | det |
| 5 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chemical | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might | It | a chemical | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | chemical | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Pour it into a cup and taste it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pour | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 cup | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pour | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taste | cc |
| 7 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pour | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taste | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | imperative | you not said here | it | a cup | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cup=Destination | |||
| 2 | taste | infinitive | you not said here | cup | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
Option 3
It is fine if it smells sweet
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 | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 smells | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 smells | nsubj |
| 6 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | advcl |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smells | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | smell a condition, not said to happen | present | it | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
It is probably just a sports drink someone forgot
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 | 7 drink | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drink | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 drink | advmod |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 drink | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sports | det |
| 6 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drink | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | drink, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | someone | tree rules |
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