Test 3 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune

A teacher pours an ice giant into a glass in a cartoon, and out comes snow. what's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: pour, come, be · To what, where: ice giant, glass, snow

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pours	nsubj
3	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giant	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	compound
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pours	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 glass	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 glass	det
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pours	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cartoon	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cartoon	det
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pours	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
15	out	out	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pours	parataxis
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 wrong	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wrong	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 comes	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pours	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour	present	a teacher	a ice giant	a glass	in a cartoon	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent giant=Theme into glass=Destination
2	come	present		snow		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snow=Theme
3	is	present				wrong property	tree rules

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

Inside it is hot, dense slush, not cold snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	7 slush	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slush	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slush	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slush	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slush	punct
6	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slush	amod
7	slush	slush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snow	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cold	advmod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snow	amod
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slush	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			hot dense slush and cold snow			tree rules

Option 2

It should be liquid iron

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	5 iron	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 iron	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 iron	cop
4	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 iron	amod
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	liquid iron					tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, it is all snow inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 snow	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snow	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snow	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 snow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	all snow				inside property	tree rules

Option 4

It should be empty space

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	5 space	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 space	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 space	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	empty space					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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