Test 16 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

Why should wet gloves be swapped for dry ones in the snow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wet, swap · To what, where: gloves

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wet	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	aux
3	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swapped	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 swapped	aux:pass
6	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wet	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 ones	case
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swapped	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ones	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wet	should							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	swap	infinitive · passive		gloves				for dry ones in the snow	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for one=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dry gloves look much better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gloves	amod
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Dry gloves					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wet hands freeze faster and can get frostbite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 freeze	nsubj
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 freeze	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
8	frostbite	frostbite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Wet hands					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	can	Wet hands not said here	frostbite					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frostbite=Stimulus

Option 3

Wet gloves shrink in the cold until they no longer fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gloves	amod
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shrink	nsubj
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrink	obl
7	until	until	ADP	_	10 longer	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 longer	nsubj
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 shrink	obl
11	fit	fit	PUNCT	_	3 shrink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	Wet gloves			the cold			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Snow sticks better to dry gloves, so snowballs are easier to make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sticks	nsubj
2	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sticks	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dry	mark
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	advcl
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dry	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 easier	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 easier	advmod
9	snowballs	snowball	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 easier	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 easier	cop
11	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sticks	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Snow		good property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	dry	to-infinitive	Snow not said here	gloves		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient glove=Result
3	is	present	snowballs		easy property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	snowballs not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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