Exam question 1 · Melting, freezing and boiling

State the temperature at which pure water freezes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pure water · What happens: freeze · To what, where: State temperature

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 freezes	obl
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 freezes	nsubj
8	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 temperature	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 temperature	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	pure water			the State temperature			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Zero degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Four degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

One hundred degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Minus ten degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minus	minus	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/e1/