Test 1 · ★★ · Lenses and eyes

Why does the "puddle" on a hot road vanish when you get close?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, vanish, get · To what, where: puddle, hot road

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Lenses and eyes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 vanish	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 puddle	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 puddle	punct
5	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 puddle	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
11	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 get	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 vanish	advcl
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 vanish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present		the puddle	a hot road		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puddle=Eventuality
2	vanish	present					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	you			close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 right answer

It was the sky's light bent by hot air, not water

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	6 light	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sky	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 light	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 water	advmod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the sky's light and water					tree rules
2	bend	participle		the sky's light and water not said here				by hot air	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by air=Location

Option 2

It sinks into the road

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 sinks	nsubj
2	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinks	obl

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

Option 3

It dries up in the time it takes you to walk there

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 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dries	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dries	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 takes	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 takes	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	dry up	present	It				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	take	present	it	you		time	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
3	walk	to-infinitive			there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cars splash it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splash	nsubj
2	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 splash	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 splash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash away	present	Cars	it				away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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