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Test 10 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

Dev guesses sugar dissolves faster in cold water. What's the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dev, sugar, best thing · What happens: guess, dissolve, be, do · To what, where: cold water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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: Dev guesses sugar dissolves faster in cold water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guesses	nsubj
2	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolves	nsubj
4	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guesses	ccomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dissolves	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolves	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guesses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Dev						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dissolve	present	sugar			cold water		fast 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.

Sentence 2: What's the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Time a spoonful in cold and in warm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoonful	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spoonful	det
3	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 cold	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoonful	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	conj

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

Option 2

Use boiling water and skip the cold one altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 skip	cc
5	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skip	obj
9	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	5 skip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	boiling water					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	skip	infinitive	you not said here	the cold one				altogether property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Agent

Option 3

Tell him he's silly for guessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 guessing	mark
7	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 silly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	he not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	he					silly property	tree rules
3	guess	gerund	he not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Agree, because guesses are usually right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 right	mark
4	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 right	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Agree	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	guesses					right, usually property	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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