Test 6 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

How can you get salt back from salty water?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: get back · To what, where: salt, salty water

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	can	you	salt		salty water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent salt=Theme from water=Source

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

Pour it through filter paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pour	obj
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 paper	case
4	filter	filter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paper	compound
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	it		filter paper			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Pour it through a sieve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pour	obj
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 sieve	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sieve	det
5	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	it		a sieve			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Let the water evaporate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the water					tree rules
2	evaporate	infinitive	the water not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Stir it very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stir	obj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stir	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	it				fast property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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