Test 5 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

Why should a cap go back on a permanent marker straight away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: go back · To what, where: permanent marker

This is test 5 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	5 go	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 marker	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 marker	det
9	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 marker	amod
10	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	should	a cap			a permanent marker		away property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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

It changes colour in the air

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 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	colour		the air			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It becomes washable if left open

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	washable	washable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 becomes	xcomp
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					washable property	tree rules
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	participle						open property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It dries out if left open

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 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 dries	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dries	advcl
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	participle						open property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It starts to leak ink

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 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 leak	mark
4	leak	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 starts	xcomp
5	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	leak	to-infinitive		ink					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ink=Source

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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