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Exam question 4 · Evaporation and condensation

It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely. Ascertain what remains.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, permit, evaporate, ascertain, remain · To what, where: It, dish

This is exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a dish of salt water is permitted to evaporate entirely.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 permitted	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dish	det
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 permitted	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dish	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 permitted	aux:pass
11	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 evaporate	mark
13	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 permitted	xcomp
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 evaporate	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	permit	present · passive		a dish of salt water					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	evaporate not said to happen	to-infinitive						entirely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain what remains.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 remains	nsubj
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain	present							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A diminished quantity of salt water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quantity	det
2	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 quantity	amod
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The water alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 water	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The salt alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salt	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 salt	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nothing whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 Nothing	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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