Test 4 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

lol my brother is all muscle and he sinks like a brick in the pool, why

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, he · What happens: be, sink · To what, where: muscle, pool

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 muscle	discourse
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muscle	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 muscle	det
6	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sinks	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sinks	nsubj
9	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 brick	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brick	det
12	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinks	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pool	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pool	det
15	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinks	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 muscle	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 muscle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	my brother	all muscle					tree rules
2	sink	present	he			the pool		like a brick	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.

The options

Option 1

He breathes in too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breathes	nsubj
2	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 much	case
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 breathes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	He			much			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Muscle sinks more than fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinks	nsubj
2	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 sinks	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 fat	case
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl

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

Option 3

Muscle is full of air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 air	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Muscle					of air; full property	tree rules

Option 4

Pools are saltier for some people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saltier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saltier	cop
3	saltier	salty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saltier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pools					for some people; salty property	tree rules

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