Exam question 4 · Materials and their properties
It is given that 10 grams of sugar is dissolved in 100 grams of water. Ascertain the mass of the resulting solution.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, dissolve, ascertain, result · To what, where: It, 10 grams, 100 grams, mass
This is exam question 4 of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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 10 grams of sugar is dissolved in 100 grams of water.
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 | _ | 10 dissolved | mark |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 grams | nummod |
| 6 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dissolved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sugar | case |
| 8 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grams | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dissolved | aux:pass |
| 10 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 grams | case |
| 12 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 grams | nummod |
| 13 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dissolved | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grams | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | dissolve | present · passive | 10 grams of sugar | 100 grams of water | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 the mass of the resulting solution.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mass | det |
| 3 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 solution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 solution | det |
| 6 | resulting | result | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 solution | amod |
| 7 | solution | solution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mass | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the mass of the resulting solution | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Topic | ||||
| 2 | result | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
One hundred and ten grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 grams | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ten | cc |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Precisely one hundred grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 grams | nummod |
| 4 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten grams, being the sugar alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sugar | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sugar | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sugar | det |
| 6 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grams | appos |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 sugar | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | the sugar | alone property | tree rules |
Option 4
Ninety grams, the sugar having vanished
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sugar | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sugar | det |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grams | nmod |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sugar | acl |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 having | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the sugar not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vanish | participle | the sugar not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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