Test 2 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

Why does a glue stick need its lid put back on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glue stick, lid · What happens: need, put back

This is test 2 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
4	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	compound
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lid	nmod:poss
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 need	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
11	on	on	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a glue stick						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	put back	past	stick's lid						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

Without the lid it dries out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	3 lid	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lid	det
3	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dries	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dries	nsubj
5	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 dries	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	lid					without the lid	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The lid keeps the glue warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lid	det
2	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glue	det
5	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the lid	the glue				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glue=Theme

Option 3

The colour fades without the lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fades	nsubj
3	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 lid	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fades	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	the colour					without the lid	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It stops the glue from melting

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glue	det
4	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 melting	case
6	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the glue		melting			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer glue=Beneficiary from melting=Eventuality

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