Test 1 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals

"found gold in the stream!!! shiny cubes, gonna be rich" What should you check first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: find, be, check · To what, where: gold, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» 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	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cubes	amod
9	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rich	punct
11	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	13 rich	dep
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 rich	cop
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 check	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 check	obj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 check	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 check	nsubj
18	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rich	parataxis
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 check	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		gold	the stream		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gold=Theme cube=Attribute
2	is in a quote	infinitive				rich property	tree rules
3	check	should	you			first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

Whether it floats, gold floats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 floats	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 floats	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floats	compound
6	floats	float	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	it						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Whether it smells of eggs, gold does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 smells	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 does	advcl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smells	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 smells	punct
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	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	smell	present	it					of eggs	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of egg=Theme
2	do	present	gold						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its streak and hardness: shiny cubes are probably pyrite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 streak	nmod:poss
2	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hardness	cc
4	hardness	hardness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 streak	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pyrite	punct
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cubes	amod
7	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pyrite	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pyrite	cop
9	probably	probably	ADV	_	10 pyrite	advmod
10	pyrite	pyrite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 streak	conj

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

Option 4

Nothing, all shiny yellow rock is gold, so start spending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 gold	nsubj
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gold	cop
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 start	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
12	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all	gold					tree rules
2	start	infinitive		spending					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spending=Eventuality

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