Test 12 · Melting, freezing and boiling

my sister says the bubbles in boiling water are air. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, bubbles · What happens: say, be · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 12 «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bubbles	det
5	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 air	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bubbles	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 air	cop
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the bubbles in boiling water	air					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 · ✓ the right answer

No, they're water vapour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 vapour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vapour	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vapour	cop
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vapour	compound
6	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	water vapour					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they're air from the pan's bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 air	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 air	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 air	cop
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pan	det
8	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottom	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 pan	case
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	air		the pan's bottom			tree rules

Option 3

Yes, they're air coming out of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 air	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 air	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 air	cop
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 air	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	air					tree rules
2	come out	gerund	air not said here	the water					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result

Option 4

No, they're tiny bits of ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bits	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bits	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bits	amod
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ice	case
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	tiny bits				of ice	tree rules

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