Test 5 · Heat moves: hot to cold
In a cartoon, a character holds a mug of tea and steam curls into a heart. What is the steam doing for the tea?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: character, steam · What happens: hold, curl, be, do · To what, where: mug, cartoon, heart
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a character holds a mug of tea and steam curls into a heart.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | nsubj |
| 7 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mug | det |
| 9 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tea | case |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mug | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 curls | cc |
| 13 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curls | nsubj |
| 14 | curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 holds | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curls | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a character | a mug of tea | a cartoon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mug=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | curl | present | steam | a heart | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination |
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 is the steam doing for the tea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 steam | det |
| 4 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 steam | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 tea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tea | det |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the steam | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the steam not said here | for the tea | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Making the tea stronger and darker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tea | det |
| 3 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Making | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 darker | cc |
| 6 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 stronger | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the tea | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product |
Option 2
Keeping it warm by staying close to it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 warm | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 staying | mark |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 warm | advcl |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 staying | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 staying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | it | close property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Carrying heat away and cooling it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carrying | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Carrying | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cooling | cc |
| 5 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Carrying | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cooling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | gerund | heat | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cool | gerund | heat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Slowly turning the tea into hot cocoa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 turning | advmod |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tea | det |
| 4 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 cocoa | case |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cocoa | amod |
| 7 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the tea | hot cocoa | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tea=Theme into cocoa=Trajectory |
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