Test 8 · ★ · Floating and sinking: the push of water

Which object is most likely to float?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, float

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 83 «Floating and sinking: the push of water» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 float	mark
7	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which object					likely property	tree rules
2	float	to-infinitive	which object not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A small solid lump of iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lump	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lump	amod
3	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lump	amod
4	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 iron	case
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lump	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A big hollow plastic box with its lid shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lid	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lid	nmod:poss
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	nmod
9	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A handful of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handful	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A glass marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 marble	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marble	compound
3	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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