Test 2 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

«lick the metal ice tray straight out the freezer, dare ya» What is the safe answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: lick, dare, be · To what, where: ice tray, ya, safe answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 lick	punct
2	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answer	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tray	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ice	compound
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tray	compound
6	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lick	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	2 lick	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 freezer	det
10	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
12	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lick	conj
13	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 dare	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lick	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lick in a quote	infinitive	the ice tray		the freezer obl; out property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tray=Theme
2	dare in a quote	infinitive		ya		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	be speech: assert	present	the safe answer			tree rules

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

Only plastic trays can stick to tongues, metal ones never can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 trays	advmod
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trays	amod
3	trays	tray	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stick	aux
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 tongues	case
7	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	compound
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tongues	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 can	advmod
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	can	plastic trays					to tongues and metal ones	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't: frozen metal can stick to your tongue and hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stick	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stick	punct
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 metal	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stick	aux
7	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tongue	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tongue	nmod:poss
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hurt	cc
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	frozen metal not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stick	can	frozen metal	to your tongue	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	hurt	infinitive	frozen metal not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Licking warms the metal, so it is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 metal	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 safe	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warms	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lick	gerund				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	warm	present		the metal		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent metal=Patient
3	is	present	metal		safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Do it, cold metal cannot stick to skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 metal	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stick	advmod
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 skin	case
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	not stick	can	cold metal					to skin	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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