Exam question 4 · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

Ascertain the condition under which granulated sugar dissolves more rapidly.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, condition · What happens: ascertain, granulate, dissolve · To what, where: sugar

This is exam question 4 of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dissolves	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 granulated	nsubj
6	granulated	granulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 condition	acl:relcl
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 granulated	obj
8	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 rapidly	advmod
10	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	8 dissolves	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	granulate	past	the condition	sugar		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
3	dissolve	present	the condition		rapidly property	vn break-45.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

In water devoid of motion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 water	case
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoid	obl
3	devoid	devoid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 motion	case
5	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoid	obl

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

Option 2

In frozen water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

In cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In warm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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