Test 1 · ★★ · Phones and computer chips

«chips are made of sand?? lol no way» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make, be · To what, where: chips

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Phones and computer chips» 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	_	4 made	punct
2	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 right	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 way	discourse
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · passive		chips				of sand; no way obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	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

No, chips are made of plastic, like toy bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 plastic	case
7	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bricks	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bricks	case
10	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bricks	compound
11	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		chips				of plastic; like toy bricks	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, beach sand is printed on just as it comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 printed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sand	compound
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 printed	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 printed	aux:pass
6	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 printed	compound:prt
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 comes	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 comes	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 printed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print on	present · passive		beach sand					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	present	sand						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, computer chips are made of thin slices of potato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chips	compound
4	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 slices	case
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slices	amod
9	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 potato	case
11	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slices	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		computer chips				of thin slices of potato	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	slice			potato					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Silicon chips start from sand that is purified and grown into crystals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silicon	silicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chips	compound
2	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 sand	case
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 purified	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 purified	aux:pass
8	purified	purify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sand	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grown	cc
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 purified	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 crystals	case
12	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	Silicon chips		sand		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	purify	present · passive		sand			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	grow	participle				into crystals result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crystal=Result

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