Exam question 4 · Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel…

State the reason for which wet skin must not touch very cold metal.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wet skin · What happens: not touch · To what, where: cold metal

This is exam question 4 of lesson 322 «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 touch	obl
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touch	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 touch	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 touch	advmod
10	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reason	acl:relcl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 cold	advmod
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 metal	amod
13	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touch	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	must	wet skin	cold metal				for the State reason	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metal=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 · ✓ the right answer

It may freeze, stick and tear when pulled away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freeze	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stick	punct
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tear	cc
7	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pulled	advmod
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tear	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	freeze	may	It		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stick	infinitive			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	tear	infinitive			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull away	participle		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It causes the skin to sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	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 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sweat	mark
6	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	the skin					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition skin=Patient
2	sweat	to-infinitive							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It causes the metal to rust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 metal	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rust	mark
6	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 metal	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	the metal					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition metal=Patient
2	rust	to-infinitive		the metal not said here					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It makes the metal warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 metal	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the metal				warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material metal=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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