Test 7 · ★★ · Mixtures and how to separate them

Which is true about a mixture of salt and pepper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 mixture	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mixture	det
6	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 salt	case
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mixture	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pepper	cc
10	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mixture	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a mixture of salt and pepper; true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Each keeps its own taste and look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 taste	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taste	amod
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keeps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	Each	its own taste	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme
2	look	infinitive	Each not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	taste		its = it		nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The pepper dissolves the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pepper	det
2	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolves	nsubj
3	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salt	det
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	the pepper	the salt					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient

Option 3

They join into a new substance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 join	nsubj
2	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 substance	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 substance	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 substance	amod
6	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 join	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	They					into a new substance	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into substance=Co-Patient

Option 4

It can never be separated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 separated	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 separated	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 separated	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 separated	aux:pass
5	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not separate	can · passive		It					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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