Test 8 · Melting, freezing and boiling

Which takes up more space: one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: take up · To what, where: more space

This is test 8 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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 takes	compound:prt
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 kilogram	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kilogram	nummod
8	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 space	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kilogram	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 kilogram	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kilogram	nummod
13	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kilogram	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilogram	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	present		more space and one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme

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

They take exactly the same space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 space	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 space	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	They	the same space					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme

Option 2

It depends on the shape of the container

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 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shape	det
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 depends	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 container	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 container	det
8	container	container	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shape	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It					on the shape of the container	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on shape=Theme

Option 3

The liquid water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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