Test 11 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

will sugar dissolve quicker in hot tea or cold

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sugar · What happens: dissolve · To what, where: hot tea

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dissolve	aux
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	nsubj
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 dissolve	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tea	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tea	amod
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	future	sugar			hot tea		quick property	vn break-45.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

It won't dissolve in either

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	4 dissolve	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolve	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dissolve	advmod
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 dissolve	obl
6	either	either	CCONJ	_	5 in	cc

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dissolve	future	It						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

In hot tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 tea	case
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tea	amod
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

In cold tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 tea	case
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tea	amod
3	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Just the same in both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 both	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 same	obl

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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