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Test 2 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

A friend wants to keep his ice lolly frozen on a hot walk. Which would help most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: want, keep, freeze, help · To what, where: ice lolly, hot walk

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: A friend wants to keep his ice lolly frozen on a hot walk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lolly	nmod:poss
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lolly	compound
8	lolly	lolly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lolly	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 walk	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 walk	det
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 walk	amod
13	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a friend						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a friend not said here	friend's ice lolly					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lolly=Theme
3	freeze	participle		friend's ice lolly not said here		a hot walk			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: Which would help most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wave it about in the warm air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wave	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 air	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	it				about the warm air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Hold it tightly in his bare hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it		his bare hand		tightly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrap it in a thick woolly scarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wrap	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 scarf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scarf	det
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scarf	amod
6	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scarf	amod
7	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	imperative	you not said here	it		a thick woolly scarf			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in scarf=Destination

Option 4

Put it in a black plastic bag in the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 bag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	amod
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	compound
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it		a black plastic bag		in the Sun	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination

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