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Test 3 · ★★ · Mixtures and how to separate them

Seawater is left in a dish in the hot sunshine. Later there is a white crust. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: white crust · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: Seawater, dish

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Seawater is left in a dish in the hot sunshine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dish	det
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sunshine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sunshine	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sunshine	amod
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		Seawater		a dish		in the hot sunshine	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dish=Location

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: Later there is a white crust.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crust	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crust	amod
6	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a white crust			there		late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: 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 Sun turned the water white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the Sun	the water				white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The dish made salt of its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dish	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the dish	salt of dish's own					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material salt=Product

Option 3

Frost formed on the dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Frost	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 dish	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dish	det
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	participle		Frost not said here		the dish			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dish=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The water evaporated and left the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evaporated	nsubj
3	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 left	cc
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 evaporated	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 salt	det
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evaporate	past	the water						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	the water not said here	the salt					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=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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