Test 6 · The air presses on everything

How does a dropper or pipette keep liquid inside until you squeeze?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, keep, squeeze · To what, where: dropper, liquid

This is test 6 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dropper	det
4	dropper	dropper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 pipette	cc
6	pipette	pipette	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropper	conj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 squeeze	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 squeeze	nsubj
12	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a dropper or pipette		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropper=Eventuality
2	keep	present		liquid	inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme
3	squeeze	present	you			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The liquid freezes inside the glass tube

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liquid	det
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freezes	nsubj
3	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 tube	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tube	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tube	compound
7	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freezes	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The same way a finger over a straw does: air pushes up from below

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 finger	det
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 straw	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 straw	det
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finger	nmod
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 pushes	punct
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushes	nsubj
12	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 pushes	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 below	case
15	below	below	ADV	_	12 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a finger over a straw	the same way					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	push up	present	air						vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from below=Co-Patient

Option 3

Magnets in the bulb hold the liquid up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bulb	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bulb	det
4	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Magnets	nmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 liquid	det
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	Magnets in the bulb	the liquid					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot liquid=Theme

Option 4

It has a tiny glue inside the tip

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glue	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glue	amod
5	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 tip	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tip	det
8	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glue	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a tiny glue		the tip			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glue=Patient

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