Test 11 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling
Your dad holds a stuck jar lid under the hot tap and it opens. Which idea explains it best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, lid, idea · What happens: hold, open, explain · To what, where: stuck jar lid, hot tap
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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: Your dad holds a stuck jar lid under the hot tap and it opens.
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 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lid | det |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lid | amod |
| 6 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lid | compound |
| 7 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tap | det |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tap | amod |
| 11 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opens | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opens | nsubj |
| 14 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Your dad | a stuck jar lid | the hot tap | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lid=Theme under tap=Location | |||
| 2 | open | present | lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Which idea explains it best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 best | obj |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 explains | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 explains | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | which idea | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Metal grows more than glass when warmed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 grows | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 glass | case |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 warmed | advmod |
| 7 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grows | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Metal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | warm | participle | Metal not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Hot water dissolves the lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolves | nsubj |
| 3 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lid | det |
| 5 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | present | Hot water | the lid | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
Option 3
Glass grows more than metal when warmed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grows | obj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 metal | case |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 warmed | advmod |
| 7 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grows | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Glass | more | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | participle | Glass not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Hot water makes the jam lighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jam | det |
| 5 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Hot water | the jam | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jam=Product |
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