Test 8 · ★★ · Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums
In a cartoon a cook opens a pressure cooker the moment it stops hissing and smiles. What is the real rule?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cook, real rule · What happens: open, stop, hiss, smile, be · To what, where: pressure cooker, cartoon, moment
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a cook opens a pressure cooker the moment it stops hissing and smiles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | nsubj |
| 6 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cooker | det |
| 8 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooker | compound |
| 9 | cooker | cooker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stops | nsubj |
| 13 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 moment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | hissing | hiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stops | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smiles | cc |
| 16 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stops | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a cook | a pressure cooker | a cartoon | moment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent cooker=Theme in cartoon=Location | ||
| 2 | stop | present | cook | the moment not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hiss | gerund | cook not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smile | present | cook not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: What is the real rule?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real rule | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Pressure cookers are never hot inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cookers | compound |
| 2 | cookers | cooker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Pressure cookers | hot, inside property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Only a grown-up opens it, after the pressure is safely let out
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 opens | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 up | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | nsubj |
| 6 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opens | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pressure | det |
| 11 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux:pass |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 opens | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | open | present | a grown up | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let out | present · passive | the pressure | safely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Anyone can open it whenever they like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 open | obj |
| 5 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 like | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | can | Anyone | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | present | they | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4
You open it fastest by pulling hard on the lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 open | nsubj |
| 2 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 open | obj |
| 4 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 open | obl |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 pulling | mark |
| 6 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 open | advcl |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pulling | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lid | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | You | it | fastest obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | You not said here | on the lid; hard property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on lid=Theme |
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