Test 4 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling
A drink with ice and a drink of cold water start at the same temperature. Which stays cold longer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drink · What happens: start, stay · To what, where: same temperature
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A drink with ice and a drink of cold water start at the same temperature.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drink | det |
| 2 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 start | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 ice | case |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drink | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drink | det |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ice | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drink | nmod |
| 11 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 temperature | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 temperature | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temperature | amod |
| 15 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 start | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 start | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a drink with ice and a drink of cold water | the same temperature | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 stays cold longer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stays | xcomp |
| 4 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cold | conj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | cold property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, both warm up instantly to room temperature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 warm | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 warm | compound:prt |
| 6 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 warm | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 temperature | mark |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 temperature | compound |
| 9 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warm | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up | present | both | instantly, neither property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The one with ice, because melting soaks up heat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 ice | case |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 soaks | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 soaks | mark |
| 7 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soaks | nsubj |
| 8 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 soaks | compound:prt |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak up | present | melting | heat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Source |
Option 3
Both exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 same | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cold water one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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