Test 12 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

my mate says chlorine in the pool is to make it blue. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, chlorine · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chlorine	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	chlorine in the pool					blue, make 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

Yes, it's just colouring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 colouring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 colouring	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colouring	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 colouring	advmod
6	colouring	colour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colour	present · progressive	it						tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and it keeps the water warm too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keeps	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeps	xcomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	5 keeps	advmod

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

Option 3

It's there to make the water smell nice n fresh

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 there	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 smell	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 there	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 n	amod
10	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	obj
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		there property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		the water		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product
3	smell	present		nice n	fresh property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer n=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, chlorine kills germs in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	chlorine	germs		the water			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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