Test 8 · ★★★ · Clever reasoning about water and matter

Why does a mountain hut buried under deep snow stay warmer inside than the frosty air?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountain hut · What happens: bury, stay · To what, where: mountain hut, deep snow

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stay	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hut	det
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hut	compound
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	nsubj
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hut	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snow	amod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 stay	xcomp
12	inside	inside	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
15	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 air	amod
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle		a mountain hut not said here		deep snow			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination
2	stay	present · do-support	a mountain hut					than the frosty air; inside, warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

The snow traps air and insulates the hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traps	nsubj
3	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traps	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 insulates	cc
6	insulates	insulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 traps	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insulates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	present	the snow	air					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	insulate	present	the snow not said here	the hut					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Destination

Option 2

Snow is made of warm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Snow				of warm water	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

The snow pulls the cold out of the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 walls	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the snow	the cold		the walls			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cold=Theme out wall=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The snow makes heat as it sits there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sits	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sits	nsubj
7	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the snow	heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product
2	sit	present	snow			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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