Test 9 · Melting, freezing and boiling

What do boiling and melting have in common?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: boiling, common

This is test 9 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 have	nsubj:outer
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 melting	cc
5	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiling	conj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 common	case
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		boiling and melting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boiling=Eventuality
2	have	present				common			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Both turn something into a solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 solid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 solid	det
6	solid	solid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Both	something		a solid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent something=Theme into solid=Trajectory

Option 2

Both happen at 0 °C

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 0	case
4	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 happen	obl
5	°	°	SYM	_	6 C	compound
6	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 0	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Both			0 ° C			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at 0=Location

Option 3

Both make a new substance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 substance	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 substance	amod
5	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both need heat to be added

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 added	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 added	aux:pass
6	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Both	heat					tree rules
2	add speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	heat not said here						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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