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Test 5 · Melting, freezing and boiling

A cook wants to cook pasta faster by heating boiling water even more strongly. Why will it not get much hotter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: want, cook, heat, boil, not get · To what, where: pasta, boiling water

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: A cook wants to cook pasta faster by heating boiling water even more strongly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cook	mark
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cook	obj
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 cook	advmod
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 heating	mark
9	heating	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cook	advcl
10	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heating	obj
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 strongly	advmod
14	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	9 heating	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a cook						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	a cook not said here	pasta				fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient
3	heat	gerund	a cook not said here	boiling water				strongly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «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.

Sentence 2: Why will it not get much hotter?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 hotter	advmod
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	future	cook					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pot cannot hold water that is hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hotter	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hotter	cop
9	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 water	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	can	the pot	water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	is	present	that					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

Water stops taking in heat once it bubbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 heat	case
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 bubbles	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bubbles	nsubj
8	bubbles	bubble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Water						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	take	gerund	Water not said here			heat			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heat=Location
3	bubble	present	Water						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

The pasta cools the water straight back down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pasta	det
2	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 down	advmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	3 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the pasta	the water				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The extra heat only turns more water into vapour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heat	amod
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 turns	advmod
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 vapour	case
9	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the extra heat	more water		vapour			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme into vapour=Trajectory

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.

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