Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★
Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine. Which melts first?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dirty snow · What happens: lie, melt · To what, where: side, sunshine
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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: Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 snow | amod |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 snow | cc |
| 4 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snow | amod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snow | conj |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sunshine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Dirty snow and clean snow | side | the sunshine | by side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
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 melts first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 melts | nsubj |
| 2 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 melts | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 melts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | first property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Neither, ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 ever | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Both at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Both | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The clean snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 2 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snow | amod |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The dirty snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 2 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snow | amod |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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