Test 12 · ★ · Air and why we need it

Mia says air is mostly oxygen. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, air · What happens: say, be · To what, where: oxygen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oxygen	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 oxygen	cop
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 oxygen	advmod
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 oxygen	punct
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia					true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	air	oxygen				mostly 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

No, most of the air is carbon dioxide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 most	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 dioxide	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 most	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dioxide	cop
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dioxide	compound
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		most carbon dioxide					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, nearly all the air is oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 oxygen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 air	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oxygen	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 oxygen	cop
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all air	oxygen					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, only about one fifth is oxygen; most is nitrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 oxygen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oxygen	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fifth	nummod
6	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oxygen	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 oxygen	cop
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 oxygen	punct
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 nitrogen	amod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nitrogen	cop
12	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oxygen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one fifth	oxygen and most nitrogen					tree rules
2	is a	present	one fifth not said here	most nitrogen					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, about half the air is oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 oxygen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 air	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oxygen	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 oxygen	cop
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	half air	oxygen					tree rules

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