Test 10 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours

why do black t-shirts get so hot in the sun

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black t shirts · What happens: get · To what, where: sun

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» 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	7 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shirts	amod
4	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shirts	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 t	punct
6	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hot	advmod
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	black t shirts			the sun		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Black lets the light pass through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lets	obj
5	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lets	xcomp
6	through	through	ADV	_	5 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Black	the light					tree rules
2	pass through	present	the light not said here					through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Black makes its own heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heat	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heat	amod
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Black	its own heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Product
2	heat		its = it						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Black absorbs almost all the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorbs	nsubj
2	absorbs	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 light	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorbs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	present	Black	all light					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal light=Theme

Option 4

Black reflects almost all the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	nsubj
2	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 light	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	Black	all light					tree rules

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