Test 13 · Solids, liquids and gases

Leo reckons sand's a liquid cos you can pour it. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, sand, you · What happens: reckon, be, pour · To what, where: liquid

This is test 13 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liquid	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liquid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liquid	det
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 pour	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 pour	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pour	aux
10	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pour	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
13	right	right	ADV	_	2 reckons	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Leo		right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	sand	a liquid		tree rules
3	pour	can	you	liquid		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

No, each grain is a tiny solid with its own shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 solid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 grain	det
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 solid	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 solid	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 solid	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 solid	amod
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 shape	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shape	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shape	amod
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 solid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	each grain					with grain's own shape; solid property	tree rules

Option 2

No, sand is a gas because it blows away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gas	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gas	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gas	det
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 blows	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blows	nsubj
9	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gas	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sand	a gas					tree rules
2	blow away	present	sand					away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, anything you can pour must be a liquid, like water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 liquid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 liquid	punct
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 liquid	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pour	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pour	aux
6	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 anything	acl:relcl
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 liquid	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 liquid	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 liquid	det
10	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 liquid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	can	you						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	is a	must	anything	a liquid and water					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, sand is a liquid that is very dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 liquid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liquid	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liquid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liquid	det
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dry	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 dry	advmod
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 liquid	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sand	a liquid					tree rules
2	is	present	a liquid					dry property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/11-solids-liquids-gases/t13/