Test 3 · Melting, freezing and boiling

Which is true?

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

This is test 3 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	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						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

Water loses its particles when it freezes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 particles	nmod:poss
4	particles	particle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loses	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 freezes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 freezes	nsubj
7	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loses	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Water	Water's particles					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Eventuality
2	freeze	present	Water						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Melting makes a brand new substance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 substance	det
4	brand	brand	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 substance	amod
6	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Melting	a new substance					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset substance=Product

Option 3

Ice is a different chemical from water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chemical	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chemical	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chemical	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chemical	amod
5	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chemical	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An ice cube and the water it melts into are the same substance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cube	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cube	compound
3	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 melts	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cube	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 melts	nsubj
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 substance	case
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 substance	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 substance	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 substance	amod
13	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	a ice cube and the water						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present				the same substance			tree rules

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