Test 2 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle

"found a rock that floats in the bath lol, is it fake?"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rock · What happens: find, float, be · To what, where: rock, bath

This is test 2 of lesson 48 «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 floats	nsubj
6	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rock	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bath	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bath	det
9	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floats	obl
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 floats	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fake	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fake	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fake	nsubj
14	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 fake	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a rock			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Topic
2	float in a quote	present	a rock		the bath		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bath=Trajectory
3	is in a quote	present	rock			fake 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 · ✓ the right answer

It's probably pumice, real rock full of gas bubbles

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	4 pumice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pumice	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 pumice	advmod
4	pumice	pumice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rock	punct
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pumice	appos
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bubbles	case
10	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bubbles	compound
11	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	pumice				probably property	tree rules

Option 2

It's obsidian, the glassy rock that floats

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 obsidian	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 obsidian	cop
3	obsidian	obsidian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rock	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
6	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obsidian	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 floats	nsubj
9	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rock	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					obsidian property	tree rules
2	float	present	the glassy rock						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It's granite with lots of air trapped inside it

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 granite	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 granite	cop
3	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 lots	case
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 granite	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lots	nmod
8	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 air	acl
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	granite				with lots of air	tree rules
2	trap	participle		air not said here		air			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It must be plastic, real rocks can never float

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	4 plastic	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 plastic	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 plastic	cop
4	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocks	amod
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 float	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 float	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 float	advmod
10	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plastic	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It					plastic property	tree rules
2	not float	can	real rocks						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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