Test 7 · Inside the Earth
In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice. What is the real core like?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: core, real core · What happens: be · To what, where: giant ball, video game
This is test 7 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» of the geography 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: In a video game, the core of the planet is a giant ball of ice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 3 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 game | compound |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ball | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 game | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 core | det |
| 7 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ball | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 planet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 planet | det |
| 10 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 core | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ball | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ball | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ball | amod |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ice | case |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ball | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ball | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the core of the planet | a giant ball | a video game | of ice | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the real core like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 core | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 core | amod |
| 5 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 core | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real core | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A frozen lake of water and ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lake | det |
| 2 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lake | amod |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lake | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ice | cc |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lake | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Very hot rock that is liquid all through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hot | advmod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rock | amod |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 liquid | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 liquid | cop |
| 6 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rock | acl:relcl |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 through | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADV | _ | 6 liquid | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hot rock | liquid, through property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A ball of gas lighter than air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighter | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gas | case |
| 4 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ball | nmod |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighter | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Very hot iron and nickel, liquid outside and solid inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hot | advmod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 iron | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nickel | cc |
| 5 | nickel | nickel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 iron | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 liquid | punct |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 iron | conj |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 7 liquid | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 solid | cc |
| 10 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 iron | conj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 solid | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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