Test 11 · ★★★ · Clever reasoning about water and matter

if the ice in my glass melts will it overflow

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ice · What happens: melt, overflow

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 melts	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ice	det
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 melts	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 glass	nmod:poss
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ice	nmod
7	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 overflow	advcl
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 overflow	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 overflow	nsubj
10	overflow	overflow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt a condition, not said to happen	present	the ice in my glass						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	overflow	future	ice						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

Yes, it will spill over the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 spill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spill	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spill	aux
5	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	future	it			the top			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Location

Option 2

No, the level drops a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 drops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drops	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 level	det
4	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	nsubj
5	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the level	a lot					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 3

Yes, melted ice makes much more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ice	amod
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	melted ice	more water					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the level hardly changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 changes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 level	det
4	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changes	nsubj
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 changes	advmod
6	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the level					hardly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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