Test 7 · ★★★ · Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics
A cyclist wears a sweaty T-shirt on a windy hill and feels chilly. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cyclist · What happens: wear, feel · To what, where: sweaty T shirt, windy hill
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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
Sentence 1: A cyclist wears a sweaty T-shirt on a windy hill and feels chilly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cyclist | det |
| 2 | cyclist | cyclist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wears | nsubj |
| 3 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shirt | det |
| 5 | sweaty | sweaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shirt | amod |
| 6 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shirt | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 T | punct |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wears | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 11 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hill | amod |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wears | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feels | cc |
| 14 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wears | conj |
| 15 | chilly | chilly | ADV | _ | 14 feels | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | a cyclist | a sweaty T shirt | a windy hill | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | present | a cyclist not said here | chilly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sweat turns to ice on the shirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ice | case |
| 4 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shirt | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shirt | det |
| 7 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Sweat | the shirt | to ice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ice=Source on shirt=Trajectory |
Option 2
The wind blows heat into the shirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 shirt | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shirt | det |
| 7 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | the wind | heat | the shirt | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent heat=Material into shirt=Product |
Option 3
The hill is closer to the cold Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hill | det |
| 2 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 closer | cop |
| 4 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Moon | amod |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 closer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the hill | to the cold Moon; close property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sweat evaporates fast in the wind and takes heat away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 evaporates | nsubj |
| 2 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 evaporates | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 evaporates | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 takes | cc |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 evaporates | conj |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 takes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evaporate | present | Sweat | the wind | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | take away | present | Sweat not said here | heat | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
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