Test 11 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing
Mia says the fluff in the dryer is dust from outside. What is it really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, fluff · What happens: say, be · To what, where: dust, fluff · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology 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: Mia says the fluff in the dryer is dust from outside.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fluff | det |
| 4 | fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dust | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dryer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dryer | det |
| 7 | dryer | dryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fluff | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dust | cop |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 outside | case |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 2 says | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the fluff in the dryer | dust | 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 it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fluff | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Soap that dried out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Soap | acl:relcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 dried | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry out | past | Soap | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Dust blown in from the street outside the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dust | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blown | obl |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | participle | Dust not said here | the street | outside the house | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Tiny bits of the clothes being dried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bits | amod |
| 2 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 clothes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clothes | det |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 bits | nmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dried | aux:pass |
| 7 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | gerund · passive | Tiny bits of the clothes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 4
Mould growing in the machine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Mould | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 machine | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 machine | det |
| 5 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 growing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | Mould not said here | the machine | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in machine=Location |
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