Test 4 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

Which is true about salt dissolved in water?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, dissolve · To what, where: salt, water

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 salt	case
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 salt	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dissolved	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about salt; true property	tree rules
2	dissolve	participle		salt not said here		water			vn break-45.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

The salt has been destroyed

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	5 destroyed	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 destroyed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 destroyed	aux:pass
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	present · perfect · passive		the salt					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The salt has turned into water

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	4 turned	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · perfect	the salt			water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory

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

The salt is still in the water

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	7 water	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 water	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 water	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the salt			the water	still		tree rules

Option 4

The salt has floated away as a gas

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	4 floated	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 floated	aux
4	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 floated	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 gas	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gas	det
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	present · perfect · passive		the salt				as a gas; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent

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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