Test 3 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

On a hot sticky humid day you sweat a lot but still feel hot. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: sweat, feel · To what, where: lot

This is test 3 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology 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: On a hot sticky humid day you sweat a lot but still feel hot.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
4	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
5	humid	humid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweat	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sweat	nsubj
8	sweat	sweat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweat	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 feel	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 feel	advmod
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sweat	conj
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feel	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sweat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweat	present	you	a lot			day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	feel	infinitive	you not said here				still	hot property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

You stop sweating when it is humid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweating	sweat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	xcomp
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 humid	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 humid	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 humid	cop
7	humid	humid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	present	You		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	sweat	gerund	You not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	humid property	tree rules

Option 2

Humid air has no oxygen in it, so the body cannot cool itself

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humid	humid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 oxygen	det
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 oxygen	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cool	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 cool	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cool	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cool	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cool	advmod
14	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	parataxis
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Humid air	no oxygen		oxygen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient
2	not cool	can	the body	body					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sweat dries slowly in damp air, so it cools you less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 dries	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dries	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cools	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 cools	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cools	nsubj
10	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dries	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cools	obj
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	Sweat			damp air		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cool	present	Sweat	you				less property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

Your sweat glands switch off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 glands	nmod:poss
2	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glands	compound
3	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 switch	nsubj
4	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 switch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	present	Your sweat glands						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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