Test 3 · ★ · Evaporation and condensation
A dog pants with its tongue out on a hot day. How does this help it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, this · What happens: pant, help · To what, where: dog
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» 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 dog pants with its tongue out on a hot day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pants | nsubj |
| 3 | pants | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tongue | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pants | obl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 pants | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pants | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | present | a dog | day | with dog's tongue; out property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: How does this help it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 help | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | this | dog | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It slows its heart down
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 slows | nsubj |
| 2 | slows | slow | 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 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slows | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 slows | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow down | present | It | its heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 2
It swallows cool air into its stomach
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 swallows | nsubj |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallows | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 stomach | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | It | cool air | air's stomach | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Water evaporating from its tongue cools it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cools | nsubj |
| 2 | evaporating | evaporate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Water | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 tongue | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 evaporating | obl |
| 6 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cools | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evaporate | gerund | Water not said here | Water's tongue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cool | present | Water | tongue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
It breathes out its heat as smoke
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 breathes | nsubj |
| 2 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 breathes | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathes | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 smoke | case |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe out | present | It | its heat | as smoke | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | |||
| 2 | heat | its = it | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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