Test 4 · ★ · Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing
A cartoon shows someone picking up dry ice with bare hands to make "party smoke". What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show, pick up, make, be · To what, where: someone, dry ice, party smoke
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows someone picking up dry ice with bare hands to make "party smoke".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 someone | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picking | compound:prt |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ice | amod |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picking | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hands | amod |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 picking | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 picking | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 smoke | punct |
| 15 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smoke | compound |
| 16 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 smoke | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | dry ice | with bare hands | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | party smoke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smoke=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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dry ice burns skin with cold and must never be touched bare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ice | amod |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burns | nsubj |
| 3 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burns | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cold | case |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 burns | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 touched | cc |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 touched | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 touched | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 touched | aux:pass |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 burns | conj |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 touched | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | Dry ice | skin | with cold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with cold=Instrument | |||
| 2 | not touch | must · passive | Dry ice not said here | bare property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |
Option 2
Dry ice is hot and burns like fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ice | amod |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hot | cop |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 burns | cc |
| 6 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hot | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dry ice | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | Dry ice not said here | like fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Dry ice melts into water on hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ice | amod |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melts | nsubj |
| 3 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melts | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 melts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | Dry ice | water | on hands | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into water=Product |
Option 4
Nothing, dry ice is just as safe to hold as the ice cubes from the freezer
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 ice | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ice | amod |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 safe | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 safe | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 safe | advmod |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hold | mark |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 safe | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 cubes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cubes | det |
| 13 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cubes | compound |
| 14 | cubes | cube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hold | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 freezer | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 freezer | det |
| 17 | freezer | freezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing dry ice | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | Nothing dry ice not said here | the freezer | as the ice cubes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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