Exam question 4 · Solids, liquids and gases

Determine the effect of heating upon the constituent particles of a substance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, effect · To what, where: effect, heating

This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 heating	case
5	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effect	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 particles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 particles	det
8	constituent	constituent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 particles	compound
9	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heating	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 substance	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 substance	det
12	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 particles	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the effect of heating upon the constituent particles of a substance					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic
2	effect			heating upon the constituent particles of a substance					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They become larger in size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 size	case
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 larger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	They					large property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They cease to move entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cease	nsubj
2	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cease	xcomp
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	4 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	to-infinitive	They not said here					entirely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They move more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They move more rapidly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rapidly	advmod
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	2 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They					rapidly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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