Test 11 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat
You put a wet cloth round a bottle of water and leave it in the breeze. What happens to the water?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: put, leave, happen · To what, where: wet cloth, cloth, breeze
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» 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 put a wet cloth round a bottle of water and leave it in the breeze.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloth | amod |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 bottle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottle | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 breeze | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 breeze | det |
| 16 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | You | a wet cloth | round a bottle of water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cloth=Goal | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | You not said here | cloth | the breeze | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in breeze=Location |
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 happens to the water?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | to the water | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It freezes solid in minutes
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 freezes | nsubj |
| 2 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 freezes | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 freezes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | present | It | minute | solid property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It gets cooler as the cloth dries
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 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 dries | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | nsubj |
| 7 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | It | cool property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dry | present | the cloth | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
It gets warmer as the cloth dries
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 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 dries | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | nsubj |
| 7 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | It | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dry | present | the cloth | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing changes at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 changes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Nothing | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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