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Test 8 · Pencils, paper and school things

In a cartoon a crayon on a cool windowsill melts into a puddle. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crayon · What happens: melt, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 8 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» 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: In a cartoon a crayon on a cool windowsill melts into a puddle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 melts	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crayon	det
5	crayon	crayon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 melts	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 windowsill	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 windowsill	det
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 windowsill	amod
9	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crayon	nmod
10	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 puddle	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 puddle	det
13	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 melts	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 melts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	a crayon on a cool windowsill			a cartoon		into a puddle	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into puddle=Product

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Crayons melt in any cool place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melt	nsubj
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 place	det
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Crayons			any cool place			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Crayons melt in your hand in a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melt	nsubj
2	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 minute	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Crayons			your hand	minute		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Crayons soften or melt only when it gets hot, like in a hot car

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soften	nsubj
2	soften	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 melt	cc
4	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soften	conj
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 gets	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gets	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	advcl
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 car	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 car	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 car	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 car	det
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 car	amod
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soften	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	present	Crayons					like a hot car	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	melt	present	Crayons not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	present	it					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Crayons never melt at all, not even when they are thrown into a fire

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 melt	advmod
3	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 melt	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thrown	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 thrown	advmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 thrown	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 thrown	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thrown	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thrown	aux:pass
12	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 melt	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not melt	present	Crayons			all			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not throw	present · passive		Crayons = crayon				into a fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into fire=Result

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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