Test 6 · Solids, liquids and gases

Which is true about a block of ice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 block	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 block	det
6	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 block	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a block of ice; true property	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

Its particles are completely still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 particles	nmod:poss
2	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 completely	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 completely	cop
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 completely	advmod

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

Option 2

It has no particles until it melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 particles	det
4	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 melts	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 melts	nsubj
7	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no particles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Patient
2	melt	present	it						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Its particles are much farther apart than they are in a gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 particles	nmod:poss
2	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 farther	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 farther	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 farther	advmod
5	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 farther	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	12 gas	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gas	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gas	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 gas	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gas	det
12	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 farther	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its particles					apart, far property	tree rules
2	is	present	particles = particle					than a gas	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its particles keep jiggling even though it is solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 particles	nmod:poss
2	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jiggling	jiggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	even	even	ADV	_	9 solid	advmod
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 solid	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 solid	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 solid	cop
9	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jiggling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Its particles		tree rules
2	jiggle	gerund	Its particles not said here		vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	solid property	tree rules

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