Test 16 · ★★ · Pools, lakes and ice

Jack says pond ice is always thickest at the edges. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, pond ice · What happens: say, be · To what, where: edges · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 45 «Pools, lakes and ice» 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ice	compound
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thickest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thickest	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 thickest	advmod
7	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 says	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 edges	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edges	det
10	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thickest	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	pond ice			the edges		always, thick 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, the middle always melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 melts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melts	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 melts	advmod
6	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	the middle					always property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, edges are often thin and weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 thin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thin	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thin	cop
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 thin	advmod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weak	cc
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	edges					often, thin property	tree rules
2	be		edges not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Yes, edges freeze first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 freeze	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freeze	nsubj
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 freeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	edges					first property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, unless it is snowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 snowing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 snowing	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snowing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snowing	aux
6	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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