Test 7 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…

When Alice is three inches tall, why would she get cold faster than a normal girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, get

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 tall	mark
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 inches	nummod
5	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	obl:unmarked
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 get	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tall	conj
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 get	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 girl	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faster	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Alice					three inches obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	get	would	Alice					cold, fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

Small people cannot wear clothes of any kind, so their skin would be bare to the wind

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wear	advmod
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 wear	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clothes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bare	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 bare	advmod
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bare	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bare	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bare	cop
16	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wear	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wear	can	Small people	clothes of any kind					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
2	is	would	people's skin					to the wind; bare property	tree rules

Option 2

Small bodies have no blood, so they cannot keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bodies	amod
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 keep	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 keep	advmod
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Small bodies	no blood					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
2	not keep	can	bodies = body					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The air is colder close to the ground everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colder	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 colder	cop
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colder	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 colder	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Small bodies have lots of skin for their size, so they lose heat quickly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bodies	amod
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 skin	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 size	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 size	nmod:poss
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 lose	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lose	nsubj
13	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
14	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 lose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Small bodies	lots of skin for bodies's size					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	lose	present	bodies = body	heat				quickly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality

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