Test 5 · Solids, liquids and gases
Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone, whole room · What happens: open, smell · To what, where: bottle, corner
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: Someone opens a bottle of perfume in a corner, and soon the whole room smells of it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 opens | nsubj |
| 2 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 perfume | case |
| 6 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smells | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 smells | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 smells | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smells | nsubj |
| 16 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 opens | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smells | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Someone | a bottle of perfume | a corner | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | smell | present | the whole room | of corner; soon property | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of it=Theme |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The perfume turns into a solid powder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 perfume | det |
| 2 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 powder | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 powder | det |
| 6 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powder | amod |
| 7 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the perfume | a solid powder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into powder=Trajectory |
Option 2
The room gets warmer from the perfume
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 room | det |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 perfume | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 perfume | det |
| 7 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warmer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the room | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The perfume gas spreads out to fill the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gas | det |
| 2 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gas | compound |
| 3 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spreads | nsubj |
| 4 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 spreads | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fill | mark |
| 7 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spreads | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | present | the perfume gas | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | the perfume gas not said here | the room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
Option 4
The perfume stays near the bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 perfume | det |
| 2 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 bottle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | the perfume | the bottle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottle=Location |
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