Test 8 · Solids, liquids and gases

What happens to the particles of hot soup as it cools?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: soup · What happens: happen, cool

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 particles	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 particles	det
5	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 soup	case
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soup	amod
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 particles	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 cools	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cools	nsubj
11	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the particles of hot soup	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cool	present	soup						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

They stop moving all at once

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 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 moving	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	gerund	They not said here					all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 2

They shrink to half their 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 shrink	nsubj
2	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 half	mark
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 size	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shrink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	They	their size					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent size=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

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

They become a different substance

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 substance	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 substance	amod
5	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 become	xcomp

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

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