Test 4 · ★★ · Cooking is chemistry

In a cooking game, a kid stirs hot caramel with his finger to taste it. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: stir, taste, be · To what, where: hot caramel, cooking game, caramel

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Cooking is chemistry» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: In a cooking game, a kid stirs hot caramel with his finger to taste it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 game	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	nsubj
8	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 caramel	amod
10	caramel	caramel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 finger	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stirs	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 taste	mark
15	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stirs	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taste	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stirs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	present	a kid	hot caramel		a cooking game		with kid's finger	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent caramel=Patient with finger=Co-Patient
2	taste	to-infinitive	a kid not said here	caramel					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing is wrong, because golden caramel is only ever just warm to touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 warm	mark
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caramel	amod
7	caramel	caramel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warm	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 warm	advmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 warm	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 warm	advmod
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 touch	mark
14	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 warm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing		wrong property	tree rules
2	is	present	golden caramel	ever	warm property	tree rules
3	touch	to-infinitive	golden caramel not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caramel	amod
2	caramel	caramel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 hotter	advmod
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sticks	cc
10	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 skin	case
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sticks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hot caramel	than boiling water; hot property	tree rules
2	boil	gerund			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stick	present	Hot caramel not said here	to skin	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to skin=Co-Patient

Option 3

Caramel is cold when it is golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caramel	caramel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 golden	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 golden	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 golden	cop
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Caramel					cold property	tree rules
2	is	present	Caramel					golden property	tree rules

Option 4

It is fine if you lick it fast

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 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lick	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lick	nsubj
6	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lick	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	lick a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it				fast property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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