Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety
A potato salad sits on a picnic table in Arizona for 3 hours at 100 °F (38 °C). Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potato salad · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: 100 ° F, picnic table
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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 potato salad sits on a picnic table in Arizona for 3 hours at 100 °F (38 °C).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 salad | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 salad | compound |
| 3 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 7 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 table | compound |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Arizona | case |
| 10 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 table | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hours | case |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 hours | nummod |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sits | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 100 | case |
| 15 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 F | nummod |
| 16 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 17 F | compound |
| 17 | F | F | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 38 | punct |
| 19 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 F | appos |
| 20 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 21 C | compound |
| 21 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 38 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 38 | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a potato salad | 100 ° F | a picnic table in Arizona | hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
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: Which is true?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is safe because potato does not go bad
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 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 5 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 safe | advcl |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go | present · do-support | potato | bad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It is safe as long as it is put back in the fridge right now
The tree, 15 words
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 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 safe | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 long | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fridge | det |
| 13 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 now | advmod |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | long, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put back | present · passive | it | the fridge | now | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fridge=Destination |
Option 3
It is safe because it does not smell bad
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 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 smell | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smell | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 smell | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 smell | advmod |
| 8 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 safe | advcl |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not smell | present · do-support | it | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is unsafe to eat, even if it looks and smells fine
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 unsafe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsafe | cop |
| 3 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unsafe | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 looks | advmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 looks | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsafe | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smells | cc |
| 12 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | conj |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smells | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | unsafe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | smell | present | fine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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