Test 1 · ★★ · Materials and their properties
A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew. Which handle gets hot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook, handle · What happens: leave, get · To what, where: metal spoon
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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: A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spoon | det |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoon | compound |
| 6 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoon | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spoon | det |
| 9 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spoon | amod |
| 10 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoon | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoon | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stew | case |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stew | amod |
| 16 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a cook | a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot stew | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=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: Which handle gets hot?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 handle | det |
| 2 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | which handle | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The plastic one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The metal one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Both get equally hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 4 hot | advmod |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Both | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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