Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★
★★★ Nan, being dramatic: "Saturn would float in my bath, it's that light!" What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Saturn, bath · What happens: be, float · To what, where: bath, light
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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: ★★★ Nan, being dramatic: "Saturn would float in my bath, it's that light!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dramatic | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Nan | case |
| 4 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dramatic | cop |
| 7 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 float | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 float | punct |
| 10 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 float | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 float | aux |
| 12 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dramatic | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bath | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 float | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 light | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 light | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 light | cop |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 light | det |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 float | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dramatic | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dramatic | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | ★ ★ Nan | dramatic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float in a quote | would | Saturn | my bath | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bath=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | bath | that light | 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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It weighs less than her bathful of 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 | 2 weighs | nsubj |
| 2 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 weighs | obj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 bathful | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bathful | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bathful | bathful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 less | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bathful | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | It | less | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is less dense than water, but no real bath could hold it
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 | 4 dense | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dense | cop |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 dense | advmod |
| 4 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dense | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hold | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 bath | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bath | amod |
| 11 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dense | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | than water; dense, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | could | no real bath | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
It is made only of ice, and ice floats
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 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 ice | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 floats | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 floats | cc |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floats | compound |
| 10 | floats | float | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | It | of ice; ice floats obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4
It is the lightest of all the planets in mass
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 | 4 lightest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lightest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lightest | det |
| 4 | lightest | light | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 planets | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 planets | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 planets | det |
| 8 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lightest | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mass | case |
| 10 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 planets | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | of all planets in mass; light property | 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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