Test 3 · Solids, liquids and gases

"steam's just hot water innit, it can't burn worse" Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit, hot water innit · What happens: not burn, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 4 «Solids, liquids and gases» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 innit	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 steam	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 innit	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 right	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burn	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burn	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 burn	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 burn	advmod
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 innit	parataxis
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 burn	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 burn	punct
15	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 right	nsubj
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn in a quote	can	innit					bad property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	steam's hot water innit					right property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, steam gives out extra heat as it turns back to water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 steam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 gives	compound:prt
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 turns	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 turns	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	present	steam	extra heat					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	turn back	present	steam			water			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to water=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, steam burns because it is on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 burns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burns	punct
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fire	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fire	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fire	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 fire	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	steam						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	steam			fire			tree rules

Option 3

Yes, steam can't burn at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 burn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 burn	advmod
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	can	steam			all			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Yes, steam is always much cooler than the boiling water it came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 cooler	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooler	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cooler	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 cooler	advmod
7	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooler	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 water	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	steam		than the boiling water; cool property	tree rules
2	boil	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	steam	the boiling water not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme

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