Test 9 · ★ · Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing

A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bag · What happens: feel, hold

This is test 9 · ★ 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 bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 salt	cc
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ice	conj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feels	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hold	mark
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cold	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	a bag of ice and salt					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hold	to-infinitive	a bag of ice and salt not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The salt in the bag is frozen solid, and frozen salt is the coldest thing there is

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salt	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bag	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salt	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 frozen	aux:pass
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frozen	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thing	cc
11	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 salt	amod
12	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frozen	obl
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		the salt in the bag		solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is a	present	frozen salt	the coldest thing			tree rules
3	be	present	the coldest thing not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The bag is made of cold plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 plastic	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plastic	amod
7	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the bag				of cold plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Salt bites the skin like a crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 crab	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crab	det
7	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Salt	the skin				like a crab	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The salted ice melts and draws heat from everything around, your hands too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ice	det
2	salted	salt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ice	amod
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melts	nsubj
4	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 draws	cc
6	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 melts	conj
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draws	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 draws	obl
10	around	around	ADV	_	6 draws	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 melts	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melts	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	4 melts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	salt	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	melt	present	the salted ice	your hands			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hand=Result
3	draw	present	the salted ice not said here	heat	everything	around property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from everything=Initial_Location

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