Test 10 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

why's the metal spoon in my tea so hot but not the wooden one

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: metal spoon · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	compound
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tea	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tea	nmod:poss
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	nmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tea	amod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 one	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the metal spoon in my tea but the wooden one					why 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

The metal spoon makes its own heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoon	compound
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heat	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the metal spoon	spoon's own heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product
2	heat		spoon						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Metal is a good conductor of heat, wood is not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 conductor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conductor	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conductor	amod
5	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 heat	case
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	conj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 conductor	parataxis
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Metal	a good conductor and wood				of heat	tree rules
2	not be	present							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Tea only heats up shiny things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 heats	advmod
3	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 heats	compound:prt
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat up	present	Tea	shiny things					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument thing=Patient

Option 4

Wood is a good conductor of heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 conductor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conductor	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conductor	amod
5	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 heat	case
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wood	a good conductor				of heat	tree rules

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