Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★
«it's literally boiling in here, I'm melting» says Ali. The kitchen is 26 °C. What is really happening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Ali, kitchen, 26 ° C. · What happens: boil, melt, say, be, happen · To what, where: 26 ° C. · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» 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: «it's literally boiling in here, I'm melting» says Ali.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 boiling | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boiling | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boiling | aux |
| 4 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 5 boiling | advmod |
| 5 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 says | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 here | case |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 boiling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 melting | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 melting | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 melting | aux |
| 11 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 boiling | parataxis |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 melting | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil in a quote | present · progressive | it | literally property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in here=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | melt in a quote | present · progressive | Ali | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Ali | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: The kitchen is 26 °C. What is really happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitchen | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 C. | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 C. | cop |
| 4 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 C. | nummod |
| 5 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 6 C. | compound |
| 6 | C. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happening | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happening | aux |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 happening | advmod |
| 10 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 C. | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 C. | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kitchen | 26 ° C. | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present · progressive | 26 ° C. | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The water in the kettle boils all on its own in that heat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boils | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 kettle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kettle | det |
| 5 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | nmod |
| 6 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 boils | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 own | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 own | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boils | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heat | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 heat | det |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boils | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | the water in the kettle | in that heat; on water's own; all property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on own=Instrument |
Option 2
The kitchen air has reached 100 °C
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 air | compound |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 C | nummod |
| 7 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 8 C | compound |
| 8 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present · perfect · passive | the kitchen air | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary c=Theme |
Option 3
Ali is slowly turning into a liquid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turning | aux |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 turning | advmod |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 liquid | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 liquid | det |
| 7 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · progressive | Ali | a liquid | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into liquid=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ali feels hot; nothing in the room is boiling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feels | xcomp |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 boiling | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 boiling | aux |
| 10 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 feels | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Ali | hot property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | boil | present · progressive | nothing | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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