--- title: A mystery mineral scratches glass but is scratched by quartz. What c… — Minerals and crystals · tree and pragmatics description: A mystery mineral scratches glass but is scratched by quartz. What can you say about it? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Minerals and crystals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals A mystery mineral scratches glass but is scratched by quartz. What can you say about it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mystery mineral, quartz, you · **What happens:** scratch, say · **To what, where:** glass · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» of the geography 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/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A mystery mineral scratches glass but is scratched by quartz. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:1 # text = A mystery mineral scratches glass but is scratched by quartz. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mineral mineral NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 scratched scratch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | a mystery mineral | glass | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | | 2 | **scratch** | present · passive | quartz | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:* What can you say about it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:2 # text = What can you say about it? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | about quartz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} It must be talc ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:o1:1 # text = It must be talc 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 talc talc NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | must | It | talc | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} It is harder than quartz and softer than glass ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:o2:1 # text = It is harder than quartz and softer than glass 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | | | than quartz; hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | than glass | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} It must be diamond, the hardest of all ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:o3:1 # text = It must be diamond, the hardest of all 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 diamond diamond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 parataxis _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | It | | | | | diamond *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} It is softer than quartz but harder than glass ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:50-minerals-and-crystals:t3:o4:1 # text = It is softer than quartz but harder than glass 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 quartz quartz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | | | than quartz; soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | than glass | tree rules | **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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