Test 9 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling

Why is it a bad idea to put a full glass bottle of water in the freezer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, put · To what, where: bad idea, full glass bottle, freezer

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bottle	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bottle	amod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottle	compound
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottle	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 freezer	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 freezer	det
17	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive		a full glass bottle of water		the freezer			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme in freezer=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.

The options

Option 1

Glass melts in the freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 freezer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 freezer	det
5	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Glass			the freezer			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The freezer will stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 freezer	det
2	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the freezer						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the freezer not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water grows as it freezes and can crack the bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 freezes	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 freezes	nsubj
5	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crack	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 crack	aux
8	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	present	Water		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	present	Water		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	crack	can	Water not said here	the bottle	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bottle=Theme

Option 4

The water will boil in the cold and blow the cap off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boil	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 boil	aux
4	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boil	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blow	cc
9	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boil	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blow	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	9 blow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	future	the water					in the cold	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in cold=Instrument
2	blow off	infinitive	the water not said here	the cap					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cap=Patient

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