Test 5 · Rust: iron's slow fire
Ollie: "my old bike's all rusty so it must be warm, rusting makes heat". What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bike · What happens: be, rust, make · To what, where: heat
This is test 5 of lesson 13 «Rust: iron's slow fire» 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: Ollie: "my old bike's all rusty so it must be warm, rusting makes heat".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rusty | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rusty | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rusty | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bike | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bike | amod |
| 6 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rusty | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 bike | case |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 rusty | advmod |
| 9 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 warm | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warm | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 warm | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 warm | cop |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 warm | punct |
| 16 | rusting | rust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rusty | advcl |
| 18 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rusty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | bike | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rust in a quote | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | heat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product |
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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Rusting takes in heat and slowly cools the bike down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rusting | rusting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 heat | case |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cools | cc |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 cools | advmod |
| 7 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bike | det |
| 9 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cools | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 cools | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Rusting | heat | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heat=Location | ||||
| 2 | cool down | present | Rusting not said here | the bike | down, slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bike=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It makes heat, but far too slowly to feel
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 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slowly | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 slowly | cc |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 slowly | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 slowly | advmod |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 makes | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 feel | mark |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slowly | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | heat | slowly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product | |||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He's right, rusty bikes feel warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 5 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bikes | amod |
| 6 | bikes | bike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | rusty bikes | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Rusting makes no heat at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rusting | rusting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 heat | det |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rusting | no heat | all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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