Test 11 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

gonna test which paper towel soaks up most, what do i keep the same

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paper towel, i · What happens: soak up, keep · To what, where: gonna test

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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	gonna	gonna	X	_	2 test	compound
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 soaks	obj
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 towel	compound
5	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaks	nsubj
6	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 test	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 soaks	compound:prt
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 soaks	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 keep	obj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	paper towel	gonna test					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source
2	keep	present · do-support	i	gonna test					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme same=Attribute

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

Only the time of day you test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 test	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 test	nsubj
7	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present	you				time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Everything except the kind of paper towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	except	except	ADP	_	4 kind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everything	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 towel	case
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 towel	compound
7	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

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

Option 3

Nothing, just change everything at once and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 change	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 change	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 change	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	infinitive	Nothing	everything					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	see	infinitive	Nothing not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Only the colour of the paper towels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 colour	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 towels	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 towels	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 towels	compound
7	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colour	nmod

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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