Test 4 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home
A girl in Alaska touches her wet tongue to a frozen metal pole. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: touch, happen · To what, where: wet tongue
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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 girl in Alaska touches her wet tongue to a frozen metal pole.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Alaska | case |
| 4 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tongue | amod |
| 8 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pole | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pole | det |
| 11 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pole | amod |
| 12 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pole | compound |
| 13 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | a girl in Alaska | girl's wet tongue | to a frozen metal pole | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-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: What happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her tongue freezes to it and tears if she pulls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freezes | nsubj |
| 3 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 freezes | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tears | cc |
| 7 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 freezes | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 pulls | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulls | nsubj |
| 10 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tears | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | Her tongue | it | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tear | present | Her tongue not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull a condition, not said to happen | present | tongue | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing happens to wet skin in the cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 skin | case |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | amod |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cold | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Nothing | the cold | to wet skin | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cold=Location |
Option 3
Her warm tongue heats the pole and she is perfectly fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tongue | amod |
| 3 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heats | nsubj |
| 4 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pole | det |
| 6 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heats | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fine | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | cop |
| 10 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 11 fine | advmod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heats | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | present | Her warm tongue | the pole | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pole=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | tongue | fine, perfectly property | tree rules |
Option 4
The pole melts where she touches it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pole | det |
| 2 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 melts | nsubj |
| 3 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 touches | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touches | nsubj |
| 6 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 melts | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touches | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present | the pole | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | touch | present | pole | it | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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