Test 1 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

"sir said glass is liquid, that's why old windows are fat at the bottom?? true?" What's right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sir, glass, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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: "sir said glass is liquid, that's why old windows are fat at the bottom?? true?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liquid	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liquid	cop
6	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fat	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fat	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fat	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fat	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 windows	amod
12	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fat	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fat	cop
14	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 bottom	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottom	det
17	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fat	obl
18	??	??	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	past	sir			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	glass		liquid property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	that	the bottom	fat property	tree rules

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, glass drips very slowly down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 drips	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drips	compound
4	drips	drip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 drips	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, glass is solid; old panes were just made uneven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 solid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solid	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 solid	cop
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 panes	amod
8	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 solid	parataxis
12	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	glass					solid property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		old panes				uneven property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

No, glass is really a kind of gas that only looks solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gas	case
9	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 looks	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 looks	advmod
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	acl:relcl
13	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	glass	a kind				of gas	tree rules
2	look	present	a kind					solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, but only in very cold weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 weather	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 weather	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 weather	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 weather	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weather	amod
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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