Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★
Four claims: ice floats on water, a steel ship floats, a clay boat floats, a clay ball floats. Which claim is false?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ice, steel ship, clay boat, clay ball, claim · What happens: float, be · To what, where: Four claims, water
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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: Four claims: ice floats on water, a steel ship floats, a clay boat floats, a clay ball floats.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 claims | nummod |
| 2 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 floats | punct |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | nsubj |
| 5 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 claims | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 floats | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 10 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ship | compound |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floats | nsubj |
| 12 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 floats | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 floats | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 15 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boat | compound |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floats | nsubj |
| 17 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 floats | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 floats | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ball | det |
| 20 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ball | compound |
| 21 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floats | nsubj |
| 22 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 floats | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 claims | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | ice | Four claims not said here | water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent claim=Theme on water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | float | present | a steel ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | float | present | a clay boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | float | present | a clay ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which claim is false?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 claim | det |
| 2 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 false | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 false | cop |
| 4 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 false | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which claim | false property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A steel ship floats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a steel ship | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Ice floats on water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floats | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Ice | water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A clay ball floats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 2 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | compound |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a clay ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A clay boat floats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | compound |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a clay boat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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