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Test 6 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

In a cartoon a snowman melts faster because someone puts a coat on him "to keep him cosy". What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowman, someone · What happens: melt, put, keep, be · To what, where: cartoon, coat, snowman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon a snowman melts faster because someone puts a coat on him "to keep him cosy".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melts	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowman	det
5	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melts	nsubj
6	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 melts	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 puts	mark
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 puts	nsubj
10	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 melts	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puts	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 puts	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 puts	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 melts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	a snowman			a cartoon		fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	put	present	someone	a coat				on snowman	tree rules
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive		snowman				cosy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The coat would make him grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coat	det
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the coat	him = he					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A coat would slow the melting, not speed it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coat	det
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
4	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 melting	det
6	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speed	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 speed	advmod
9	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speed	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 speed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	would	a coat	the melting					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent melting=Patient
2	not speed up	infinitive	a coat not said here	melting					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, coats always warm up whatever is inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 coats	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warm	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 warm	compound:prt
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 warm	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whatever	cop
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	Nothing coats					inside them = they; always property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Nothing coats not said here	whatever					tree rules

Option 4

Coats make snow turn into steam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 steam	case
6	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Coats	snow					tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	snow not said here			steam			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into steam=Trajectory

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