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Test 4 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

Gran says the wine in the stew "all burns off". What's fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, all · What happens: say, burn off, be · To what, where: wine, stew · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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: Gran says the wine in the stew "all burns off".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wine	det
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stew	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stew	det
7	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wine	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stew	acl:relcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 burns	compound:prt
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Gran	the wine		the stew			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent wine=Theme in stew=Manner
2	burn off in a quote	present	all	the stew not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stew=Theme

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 fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She's right, every bit of it disappears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bit	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappears	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nmod
9	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	disappear	present	every bit of it						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stew makes more alcohol the longer it cooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 alcohol	amod
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 longer	det
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 cooks	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cooks	nsubj
8	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Stew	more alcohol					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material alcohol=Product
2	cook	present	Stew					long property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some alcohol always stays, though long cooking removes most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 alcohol	det
2	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 stays	advmod
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 removes	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 removes	mark
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cooking	amod
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 removes	nsubj
9	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stays	conj
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 removes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	some alcohol					always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remove	present	long cooking	most					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 4

Alcohol turns into sugar when it's hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 sugar	case
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hot	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hot	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Alcohol			sugar			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sugar=Trajectory
2	is	present	Alcohol					hot 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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