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Test 8 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

An apple floats but a raw potato of the same size usually sinks. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: apple, raw potato · What happens: float, sink

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: An apple floats but a raw potato of the same size usually sinks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sinks	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 potato	det
6	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 potato	amod
7	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sinks	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 size	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 size	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 size	amod
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 potato	nmod
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 sinks	advmod
13	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	a apple						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink	present	a raw potato of the same size					usually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

The apple is lighter in colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lighter	cop
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 colour	case
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the apple			colour		light property	tree rules

Option 2

The potato is rounder in shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 potato	det
2	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rounder	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rounder	cop
4	rounder	round	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 shape	case
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rounder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the potato			shape		round property	tree rules

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

The apple is less dense, partly because of the air inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dense	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dense	cop
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dense	advmod
5	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 air	punct
7	partly	partly	ADV	_	11 air	advmod
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 air	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 because	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dense	obl
12	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the apple					because the air inside air; dense, less property	tree rules

Option 4

The apple has a stalk at the top that holds it up in the water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stalk	det
5	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stalk	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 holds	nsubj
10	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stalk	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 holds	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 holds	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the apple	a stalk		the top			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient
2	hold up	present	a stalk	stalk		the water			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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