Test 10 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling
oi, don't stick your hand over the spout, the white stuff's just mist innit. What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, truth · What happens: not stick, be · To what, where: hand, spout
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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: oi, don't stick your hand over the spout, the white stuff's just mist innit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 5 stick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 oi | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 stick | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stick | advmod |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 spout | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spout | det |
| 10 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stuff | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stuff | amod |
| 14 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 innit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 stuff | case |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 innit | advmod |
| 17 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 innit | compound |
| 18 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spout | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stick | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your hand | the spout and the white stuff's mist innit | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over spout=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's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is scalding hot, and the invisible steam below it is too
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 | 3 scalding | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scalding | aux |
| 3 | scalding | scald | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scalding | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 steam | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 steam | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steam | det |
| 8 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steam | amod |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scalding | obl |
| 10 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 steam | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scalding | parataxis |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 is | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scald | present · progressive | It | the invisible steam below steam | hot property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It is dust and will just make you sneeze
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 | 3 dust | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dust | cop |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dust | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | dust | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sneeze | infinitive | you not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It is cool mist and harmless
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 | 4 mist | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mist | cop |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mist | amod |
| 4 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 harmless | cc |
| 6 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mist | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | cool mist | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 4
Only the kettle body is hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 body | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 3 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | compound |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the kettle body | hot property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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