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Test 4 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

A cartoon shows a hero digging to the middle of the Earth and splashing into a lava lake. What would he really find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, hero · What happens: show, dig, splash, find · To what, where: hero, lava lake

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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 shows a hero digging to the middle of the Earth and splashing into a lava lake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hero	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 digging	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 splashing	cc
14	splashing	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 digging	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 lake	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lake	det
17	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lake	compound
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 splashing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a hero					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient
2	dig	gerund	a hero not said here					to the middle of the Earth	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	splash	gerund	a hero not said here			a lava lake			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lake=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 would he really find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 find	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	cartoon						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A big lava lake, just like the cartoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lake	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lake	amod
3	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lake	compound
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cartoon	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 cartoon	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 cartoon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cartoon	det
9	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lake	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A liquid metal outer core, then a solid iron and nickel ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 metal	det
2	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 metal	amod
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 core	amod
5	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metal	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 iron	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 iron	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 iron	det
9	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 iron	amod
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metal	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ball	cc
12	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ball	compound
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 iron	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Cold rock all the way through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rock	amod
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rock	nmod:unmarked
6	through	through	ADV	_	5 way	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A hollow cave with a little sun inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cave	det
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cave	amod
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 sun	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sun	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sun	amod
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cave	nmod
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 sun	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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