Test 8 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling
You watch the thermometer in a glass of melting ice for ten minutes. What do you see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: watch, melt, see · To what, where: thermometer, glass
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: You watch the thermometer in a glass of melting ice for ten minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thermometer | det |
| 4 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watch | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watch | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ice | case |
| 9 | melting | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ice | amod |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watch | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | You | the thermometer | a glass of melting ice | minute | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thermometer=Theme | ||
| 2 | melt | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 do you see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It stays near 0 degrees while the ice melts
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 | 2 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 degrees | case |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stays | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 melts | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ice | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 melts | nsubj |
| 9 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stays | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | It | 0 degrees | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near degree=Location | ||||
| 2 | melt | present | the ice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
It rises steadily the whole time
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 | 2 rises | nsubj |
| 2 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 2 rises | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rises | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | It | time | steadily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It falls lower and lower
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 | 2 falls | nsubj |
| 2 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 falls | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lower | cc |
| 5 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lower | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | It | low property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It jumps straight up to room temperature at once
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 | 2 jumps | nsubj |
| 2 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 jumps | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 temperature | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 temperature | case |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | compound |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumps | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 jumps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | present | It | room temperature | straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up temperature=Trajectory |
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