Test 4 · Rocks, minerals and fossils
A builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by heat and pressure. Which should he ask for?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: builder, stone, heat · What happens: want, start, change, ask · To what, where: stone
This is test 4 of lesson 61 «Rocks, minerals and fossils» 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 builder wants a stone that started as limestone and was changed by heat and pressure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 builder | det |
| 2 | builder | builder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 limestone | case |
| 9 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | aux:pass |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 started | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 heat | case |
| 14 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pressure | cc |
| 16 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heat | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a builder | a stone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | a stone | as limestone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | heat and pressure | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 should he ask for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 ask | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Basalt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basalt | basalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Granite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sandstone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandstone | sandstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Marble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marble | marble | 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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