Test 11 · Bottles, cans and recycling

«leave the cola in the sun, it'll get extra fizzy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cola · What happens: leave, get, be · To what, where: cola, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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	_	2 leave	punct
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cola	det
4	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leave	conj
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fizzy	amod
13	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leave	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the cola	the sun		tree rules
2	get in a quote	future	cola			fizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It goes flat faster, because warm drinks hold less gas

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 goes	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hold	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hold	mark
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drinks	amod
8	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	nsubj
9	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 gas	amod
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	It					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	present	warm drinks	less gas					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme

Option 2

The sun makes extra gas in the drink, so it gets much fizzier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gas	amod
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 drink	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drink	det
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gets	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 gets	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gets	nsubj
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 fizzier	advmod
14	fizzier	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the sun	extra gas		the drink			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product
2	get	present	sun					fizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The sun makes no difference at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 difference	det
5	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the sun	no difference		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product

Option 4

The sun turns the cola into plain water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cola	det
5	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the sun	the cola		plain water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cola=Theme into water=Trajectory

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