Test 2 · Heat moves: hot to cold

On a scorching day, which feels hotter to sit on: a metal bench or a wooden one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: metal bench · What happens: scorch, feel, sit on · To what, where: metal bench

This is test 2 of lesson 23 «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	scorching	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feels	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feels	nsubj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 feels	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hotter	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bench	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bench	det
14	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bench	compound
15	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bench	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	feel	present		a metal bench or a wooden one	day	hot property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	sit on	to-infinitive	a metal bench or a wooden one not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Both feel exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp

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

Option 2

The wooden one, because wood stores heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stores	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 stores	mark
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	nsubj
7	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	the wooden one	heat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The metal one, because it passes heat into you faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	compound
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 passes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passes	nsubj
7	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passes	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 passes	obl
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 passes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	it	heat				into you; fast property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent heat=Theme into you=Destination

Option 4

Neither, sun does not heat benches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 heat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 heat	advmod
6	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not heat	present · do-support	sun	benches				neither property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bench=Patient

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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