Test 3 · ★ · Colours of fire: fireworks

If you put a glow stick in the freezer, what happens?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: glow stick, freezer

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 put	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 happens	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
5	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	compound
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 freezer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 freezer	det
9	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happens	nsubj
12	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a glow stick		the freezer			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in freezer=Destination
2	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 turns into a hard ice lolly

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 lolly	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lolly	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lolly	amod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lolly	compound
7	lolly	lolly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a hard ice lolly			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lolly=Trajectory

Option 2

It stops forever and is ruined

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 stops	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ruined	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ruined	aux:pass
6	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stops	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It					forever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ruin	present · passive							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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

It glows dimmer but lasts longer

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 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dimmer	dimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glows	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 lasts	cc
5	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 glows	conj
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 lasts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It	dimmer					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dimmer=Theme
2	last	present						long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It glows brighter and lasts longer

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 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 glows	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lasts	cc
5	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 glows	conj
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 lasts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It					bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	last	present						long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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