Test 3 · ★ · Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing

"it's minus 25 out, why aren't they salting the roads, lazy council" What is a better reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, they, roads · What happens: be, not salt · To what, where: roads, better reason

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 5 «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» 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	_	6 out	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 out	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
4	minus	minus	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
5	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 out	compound
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 salting	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 salting	advmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 salting	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 salting	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 salting	nsubj
12	salting	salt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 out	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roads	det
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 salting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 council	punct
16	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 council	amod
17	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roads	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 reason	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 reason	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reason	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 reason	det
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 reason	amod
23	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roads	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it		minus, out property	tree rules
2	not salt in a quote	present · progressive	they	the roads and lazy council and a better reason		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Destination
3	is a	present	the roads and lazy council and a better reason	a better reason		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 · ← Mova's choice

Roads cannot get icy below minus 20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	below	below	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
7	minus	minus	ADV	_	8 20	advmod
8	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	can	Roads	20				below, icy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Salt does not melt ice well in such hard frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 melt	advmod
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 melt	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 frost	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frost	amod
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frost	amod
10	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not melt	present · do-support	Salt	ice		such hard frost		well property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result

Option 3

Salt only works on roads in the summer months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 roads	case
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 months	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 months	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 months	compound
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Salt				month	on roads	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on road=Theme

Option 4

Salt makes ice thicker at minus 25

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 minus	case
6	minus	minus	SYM	_	2 makes	obl
7	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minus	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Salt	ice				thick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ice=Product

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