Test 4 · ★★ · Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums
Crap, mum shook the cola bottle before handing it to me. What happens if I open it now?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, I · What happens: shake, hand, happen, open · To what, where: Crap, bottle, me
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» 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: Crap, mum shook the cola bottle before handing it to me.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crap | crap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crap | punct |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 6 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | compound |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 handing | mark |
| 9 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shook | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 handing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 handing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | mum | Crap | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hand | gerund | mum not said here | bottle | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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 if I open it now?
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 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 open | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happens | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 open | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 open | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | 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 | ||||||
| 2 | open a condition, not said to happen | present | I | bottle | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, shaking has no effect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaking | punct |
| 3 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 effect | det |
| 6 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | Nothing not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Nothing | no effect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
Option 2
The bottle will freeze in your hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freeze | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 freeze | aux |
| 4 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freeze | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | future | the bottle | your hand | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
The cola goes flat inside the closed bottle straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cola | det |
| 2 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 bottle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bottle | amod |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the cola | the closed bottle | away, flat property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside bottle=Location | |||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The gas rushes out at once and sprays everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gas | det |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushes | nsubj |
| 3 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 rushes | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 rushes | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sprays | cc |
| 8 | sprays | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushes | conj |
| 9 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 sprays | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | present | the gas | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | spray | present | the gas not said here | everywhere property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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