Test 5 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

Why are picnic cool boxes made with a thick layer of foam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: picnic cool boxes

This is test 5 · ★★ 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=Int	5 boxes	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boxes	cop
3	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boxes	compound
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boxes	amod
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boxes	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 layer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 layer	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 layer	amod
10	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 foam	case
12	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 layer	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boxes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		picnic cool boxes					tree rules
2	make	participle		picnic cool boxes not said here				with a thick layer of foam	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Foam is heavy and holds the lid down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	cop
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 holds	cc
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lid	det
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	5 holds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foam					heavy property	tree rules
2	hold down	present	Foam not said here	the lid					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

Option 2

Foam lets heat through quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj
4	through	through	ADV	_	2 lets	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 lets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Foam	heat				quickly, through property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

Option 3

Foam makes cold of its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Foam					cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Foam is full of trapped air and insulates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 insulates	cc
8	insulates	insulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foam	of trapped air; full property	tree rules
2	trap	participle			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	insulate	present	Foam not said here		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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