Test 4 · ★★ · Mixtures and how to separate them
A gardener wants to remove the small stones from a pile of soil. Which tool helps most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardener, tool · What happens: want, remove, help · To what, where: small stones, pile
This is test 4 · ★★ 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 gardener wants to remove the small stones from a pile of soil.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remove | mark |
| 5 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stones | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remove | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 pile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pile | det |
| 11 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remove | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 soil | case |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pile | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a gardener | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remove not said to happen | to-infinitive | a gardener not said here | the small stones | a pile of soil | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from pile=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.
Sentence 2: Which tool helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 tool | det |
| 2 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 helps | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | which tool | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A long thermometer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thermometer | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thermometer | amod |
| 3 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A strong magnet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magnet | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magnet | amod |
| 3 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sheet of filter paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sheet | det |
| 2 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paper | case |
| 4 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paper | compound |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sheet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A garden sieve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sieve | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sieve | compound |
| 3 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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