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Test 2 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

A cartoon shows Saturn sinking like a stone when it is dropped into a giant bath. What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show, sink, drop, happen · To what, where: Saturn, cartoon, giant bath

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» of the space 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: A cartoon shows Saturn sinking like a stone when it is dropped into a giant bath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
5	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 shows	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sinking	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 dropped	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dropped	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dropped	aux:pass
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sinking	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 bath	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bath	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bath	amod
16	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	Saturn					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent saturn=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sink	gerund	a cartoon not said here					like a stone	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drop	present · passive		cartoon		a giant bath			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into bath=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 should happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	should							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It should explode on touching 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	3 explode	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explode	aux
3	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 touching	mark
5	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 explode	advcl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	should	It						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	gerund		water					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It should float, as it is less dense than 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	3 float	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dense	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 dense	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dense	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dense	cop
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 dense	advmod
9	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 float	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dense	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	should	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					than water; dense, less property	tree rules

Option 3

It should sink fast, as it is so heavy

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 sink	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sink	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heavy	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 heavy	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heavy	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heavy	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	should	It					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it					heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

It should melt away in the 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	3 melt	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 melt	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	should	It			the water		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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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