Test 6 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals
A cartoon miner scratches a diamond with his fingernail. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon miner · What happens: scratch, be · To what, where: diamond
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon miner scratches a diamond with his fingernail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 miner | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 miner | compound |
| 3 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scratches | nsubj |
| 4 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 diamond | det |
| 6 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scratches | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fingernail | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fingernail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fingernail | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scratches | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scratches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | a cartoon miner | a diamond | with miner's fingernail | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Patient with fingernail=Instrument |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Diamond can only ever be scratched by gold, not by nails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 scratched | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 scratched | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 scratched | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 scratched | aux:pass |
| 6 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scratched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nails | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 nails | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 nails | case |
| 12 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scratched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | can · passive | nails | Diamond | ever | by gold | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Patient by gold=Location |
Option 2
Fingernails are harder than any mineral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 harder | cop |
| 3 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 mineral | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 mineral | det |
| 6 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 harder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fingernails | than any mineral; hard property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Diamond is the hardest mineral; a fingernail can't scratch it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mineral | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mineral | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mineral | det |
| 4 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 mineral | amod |
| 5 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 scratch | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fingernail | det |
| 8 | fingernail | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scratch | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 scratch | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 scratch | advmod |
| 11 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mineral | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 scratch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Diamond | the hardest mineral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not scratch | can | a fingernail | Diamond | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing, diamond is soft like talc
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 diamond | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 talc | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talc | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 talc | amod |
| 6 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 talc | amod |
| 7 | talc | talc | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing diamond | soft like talc | tree rules |
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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