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Test 2 · ★★ · Mixtures and how to separate them

A boy spills steel paper clips into a bowl of rice. How can he get them out quickly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, steel paper, paper · What happens: spill, clip, get out · To what, where: them

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy spills steel paper clips into a bowl of rice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spills	nsubj
3	spills	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paper	compound
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clips	nsubj
6	clips	clip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spills	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clips	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 rice	case
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowl	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spills	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	present	a boy						tree rules
2	clip	present	steel paper					into a bowl of rice	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bowl=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: How can he get them out quickly?

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	can	paper	them = they				quickly property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Boil the rice until it is soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rice	det
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 soft	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 soft	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 soft	cop
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Boil	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	the rice					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
2	is	present	rice					soft property	tree rules

Option 2

Pour in water and filter it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 filter	cc
5	filter	filter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pour	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 filter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here			water			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	filter	infinitive	you not said here	water					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location

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

Dissolve the rice in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dissolve	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rice	det
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dissolve	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dissolve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	imperative	you not said here	the rice		water			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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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