Test 9 · Heat moves: hot to cold
Which is true about how you feel hot and cold?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, feel
This is test 9 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 feel | mark |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feel | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | advcl |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cold | cc |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hot | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | you | hot property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Your skin feels the colour of things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 colour | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Your skin | the colour of things | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Your skin feels how fast heat leaves it, not the true temperature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heat | amod |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | nsubj |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaves | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 temperature | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 temperature | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 temperature | det |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 temperature | amod |
| 13 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Your skin | the true temperature | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | fast heat | skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Your skin is a perfect thermometer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thermometer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thermometer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thermometer | det |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thermometer | amod |
| 6 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your skin | a perfect thermometer | tree rules |
Option 4
Your skin only feels cold, never heat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 feels | advmod |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feels | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heat | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 heat | advmod |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Your skin | heat | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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