Test 3 · Heat moves: hot to cold

What would happen to a cup of hot tea left in a warm room for a very long time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: hot tea, warm room

This is test 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cup	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cup	det
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tea	case
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tea	amod
9	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cup	nmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tea	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a cup of hot tea	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		hot tea not said here			time	in a warm room result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in room=Result

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

It would get colder than the room

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It would get hotter by itself

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					by itself = it; hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It would stay hot for ever

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					hot property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would cool until it was the same temperature as the room

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 cool	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cool	aux
3	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 temperature	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 temperature	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 temperature	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temperature	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 temperature	amod
9	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cool	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	would	It					as the room	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	it	the same temperature					tree rules

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