Exam question 4 · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★

Identify the outcome when a vessel passes from fresh water into sea water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, vessel · What happens: identify, pass · To what, where: outcome, fresh water

This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 passes	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passes	nsubj
7	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passes	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passes	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the outcome					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme
2	pass	present	a vessel			fresh water		into sea water	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location into water=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It floats slightly higher

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	2 floats	advmod
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 floats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It					slightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its depth is wholly unaltered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 depth	nmod:poss
2	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unaltered	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unaltered	cop
4	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	5 unaltered	advmod
5	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its depth					unaltered, wholly property	tree rules

Option 3

It floats slightly lower

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	2 floats	advmod
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 floats	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It					low, slightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It sinks to the bottom

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	to	to	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinks	obl

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

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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