Test 6 · Gemstones and precious metals
Mia's necklace has a fly stuck inside a golden-brown stone. What is the stone?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: necklace, stone · What happens: have, stick, be · To what, where: fly, brown stone
This is test 6 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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: Mia's necklace has a fly stuck inside a golden-brown stone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fly | det |
| 6 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fly | acl |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brown | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 golden | punct |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mia's necklace | a fly | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stick | participle | a fly not said here | a brown stone | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme inside stone=Destination |
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 stone?
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 | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stone | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Quartz, a very common mineral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quartz | quartz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mineral | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mineral | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 common | advmod |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mineral | amod |
| 6 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quartz | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Topaz, a hard yellow crystal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Topaz | Topaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crystal | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crystal | det |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crystal | amod |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crystal | amod |
| 6 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Topaz | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ruby, a red kind of corundum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ruby | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 corundum | case |
| 7 | corundum | corundum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Amber, fossil tree resin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 resin | punct |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resin | compound |
| 5 | resin | resin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Amber | conj |
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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