Test 5 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons
You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: normal cola, bowl
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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: You put a can of normal cola and a can of diet cola in a bowl of water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cola | det |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cola | aux |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cola | case |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cola | amod |
| 7 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cola | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cola | det |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cola | aux |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cola | case |
| 12 | diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cola | compound |
| 13 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bowl | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bowl | det |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bowl | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | You | a normal cola | a bowl of water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cola=Theme in bowl=Destination |
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 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 · ← Mova's choice
Both float on the top, because the cans are full of air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 float | nsubj |
| 2 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 float | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 full | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cans | det |
| 9 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 float | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Both | the top | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the cans | of air; full property | tree rules |
Option 2
The normal one floats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | 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 | the normal one | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Both sink to the bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sink | nsubj |
| 2 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bottom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottom | det |
| 5 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | Both | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The diet one floats and the normal one sinks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sinks | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinks | nsubj |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 floats | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | the diet one | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sink | present | the normal one | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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