Test 11 · ★★ · Mixtures and how to separate them

got iron filings mixed with sand, how to split em

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, mix, split · To what, where: iron filings, em

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Mixtures and how to separate them» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 filings	amod
3	filings	filing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 got	obj
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 filings	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 split	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 split	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 split	mark
10	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 got	parataxis
11	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	iron filings		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer filing=Stimulus
2	mix	participle	iron filings not said here	with sand	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sand=Co-Patient
3	split	to-infinitive	em		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent em=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 · ← Mova's choice

Use a filter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 filter	det
3	filter	filter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a filter					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filter=Patient

Option 2

Add water and boil it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Add	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 boil	cc
4	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Add	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boil	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	water					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	boil	present	you not said here	water					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Use a magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 magnet	det
3	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a magnet					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient

Option 4

Pour it through a fine 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	_	6 sieve	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sieve	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sieve	amod
6	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 fine sieve			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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