Test 10 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

Why does the glow-worm's light not get hot like a bulb?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, glow worm · What happens: do, not get, light · To what, where: light

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 worm	det
4	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worm	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 glow	punct
6	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 worm	case
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 bulb	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bulb	det
14	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hot	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	you not said here	the glow worm's light		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Eventuality
2	not get	imperative	you not said here		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	light		the glow worm			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

It only glows for a second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 glows	advmod
3	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It				second		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Light from a chemical reaction wastes almost no energy as heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wastes	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 reaction	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reaction	det
4	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reaction	amod
5	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Light	nmod
6	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 energy	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 energy	det
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wastes	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 heat	case
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present	Light from a chemical reaction	no energy				as heat	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent energy=Duration as heat=Attribute

Option 3

It keeps the light in ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the light		ice			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent light=Theme in ice=Location

Option 4

It is far too small to get hot like a bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 small	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	advcl
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bulb	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bulb	det
11	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					far, small property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive						hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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