Test 2 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

«concrete's just mud that dries, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mud · What happens: dry, innit, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 mud	punct
2	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mud	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 concrete	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 mud	advmod
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dries	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 dries	nsubj
7	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dries	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 innit	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dry in a quote	present	concrete's mud		tree rules
2	innit in a quote	infinitive	concrete's mud not said here		tree rules
3	is	present		right 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

No, it sets because it freezes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sets	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sets	nsubj
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 freezes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 freezes	nsubj
7	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sets	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	it						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	freeze	present	it						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, so rain makes it go soft and runny again later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 makes	advmod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 runny	cc
10	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soft	conj
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	rain	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive					again	late, soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it sets by a chemical reaction with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sets	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sets	nsubj
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 reaction	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reaction	det
7	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reaction	amod
8	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sets	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	it					by a chemical reaction with water	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by reaction=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it dries in the sun like mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 dries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dries	nsubj
4	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 mud	case
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	it			the sun		like mud	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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