--- title: "pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal". What's tr… — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics description: "pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal". What's true? 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What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pure gold, best · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hardest metal This is test 4 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal". ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:1 # text = "pure gold is the best for rings, it's the hardest metal". 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 nsubj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pure gold | | | | | for rings; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the best | the hardest metal | | | | | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:2 # text = What's true? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Pure gold is soft and scratches easily ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:o1:1 # text = Pure gold is soft and scratches easily 1 Pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 easily easily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Pure gold | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **scratch** | present | Pure gold *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Pure gold never bends at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:o2:1 # text = Pure gold never bends at all 1 Pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bend** | present | Pure gold | | | all | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Pure gold is the hardest metal ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:o3:1 # text = Pure gold is the hardest metal 1 Pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Pure gold | the hardest metal | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Pure gold can cut glass ```conllu # sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:t4:o4:1 # text = Pure gold can cut glass 1 Pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | can | Pure gold | glass | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material glass=Product | **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. 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