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Test 3 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

An egg sinks in your glass. You stir in lots of salt. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: egg, You · What happens: sink, stir, happen · To what, where: glass, lots

This is test 3 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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: An egg sinks in your glass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	nsubj
3	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 glass	nmod:poss
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	a egg			your glass			vn other_cos-45.4 «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: You stir in lots of salt.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stir	nsubj
2	stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 lots	case
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stir	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 salt	case
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stir	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	present	You			lots of salt			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lot=Location

Sentence 3: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It sinks faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sinks	nsubj
2	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 sinks	advmod

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

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

It floats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	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	float	present	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It cracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracks	nsubj
2	cracks	crack	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	crack	present	It						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It dissolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissolves	nsubj
2	dissolves	dissolve	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	dissolve	present	It						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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