Test 9 · ★★ · Wind, sun and other clean energy
Two bottles of water lie in the sun, one painted white and one painted black. Which warms faster, and why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two bottles, one · What happens: lie, be, paint, warm · To what, where: sun
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Wind, sun and other clean energy» 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
Sentence 1: Two bottles of water lie in the sun, one painted white and one painted black.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bottles | nummod |
| 2 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottles | nmod |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 white | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 white | nsubj |
| 11 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 white | cop |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lie | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 painted | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 painted | nsubj |
| 15 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 white | conj |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 painted | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Two bottles of water | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | one | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | one | black property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 warms faster, and why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 warms | nsubj |
| 2 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 warms | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 why | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 why | cc |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 warms | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 warms | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | present | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The white one, because it reflects heat inwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reflects | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 reflects | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reflects | nsubj |
| 7 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflects | obj |
| 9 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 7 reflects | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | it | heat | inwards property | tree rules |
Option 2
Both the same, colour does not matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 matter | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colour | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 same | punct |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 matter | advmod |
| 8 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | the same colour | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
The white one, because white soaks up more sunlight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soaks | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 soaks | mark |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soaks | nsubj |
| 7 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 soaks | compound:prt |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 sunlight | amod |
| 10 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak up | present | white | more sunlight | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The black one, because black soaks up more sunlight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soaks | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 soaks | mark |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soaks | amod |
| 7 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 soaks | compound:prt |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 sunlight | amod |
| 10 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak up | present | the black one not said here | more sunlight | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source |
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