Exam question 2 · Melting, freezing and boiling

Whereas ice is undergoing melting, ascertain the temperature thereof until the process is complete.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: process · What happens: undergo, ascertain, be · To what, where: melting, temperature

This is exam question 2 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	2 ice	case
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undergoing	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 undergoing	aux
4	undergoing	undergo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undergoing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ascertain	punct
7	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 undergoing	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temperature	det
9	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ascertain	obj
10	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	7 ascertain	advmod
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 complete	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 process	det
13	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 complete	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 complete	cop
15	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ascertain	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undergoing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	undergo	present · progressive		melting	whereas ice	tree rules
2	ascertain	infinitive		the temperature	thereof property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Topic
3	is	present	the process		complete 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

It falls steadily throughout

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 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	2 falls	advmod
4	throughout	throughout	PUNCT	_	2 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	It					steadily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It rises steadily throughout

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 rises	nsubj
2	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	2 rises	advmod
4	throughout	throughout	ADV	_	2 rises	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	It					steadily, throughout property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It fluctuates unpredictably

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 fluctuates	nsubj
2	fluctuates	fluctuate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unpredictably	unpredictably	ADV	_	2 fluctuates	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fluctuate	present	It					unpredictably property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It remains at zero degrees Celsius

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 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 degrees	case
4	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remains	obl
6	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It			zero degrees Celsius			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at degree=Location

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