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Test 7 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

Your kettle is boiling. Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud. What is the white cloud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kettle, small clear gap, white cloud · What happens: boil, be · To what, where: spout

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Your kettle is boiling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kettle	nmod:poss
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boiling	aux
4	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 boiling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · progressive	Your kettle						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 spout	advmod
2	above	above	ADP	_	4 spout	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spout	det
4	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spout	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gap	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gap	amod
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gap	amod
10	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cloud	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 cloud	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cloud	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloud	amod
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gap	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a small clear gap	the spout not said here		there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spout=Theme

Sentence 3: What is the white cloud?

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	5 cloud	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloud	amod
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the white cloud						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Smoke coming off the hot metal element inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Smoke	acl
3	off	off	ADP	_	7 element	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 element	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 element	amod
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 element	compound
7	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coming	obl
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	gerund	Smoke not said here	the hot metal element				inside property	tree rules

Option 2

Pure invisible steam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steam	amod
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steam	amod
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Air turned white by the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Air					by the heat; white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by heat=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny water drops formed as the steam cools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drops	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	compound
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cools	nsubj
4	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drops	acl
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 steam	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steam	det
7	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obl
8	cools	cool	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	form	participle		Tiny water drops not said here				as the steam	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cool	present	Tiny water drops						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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