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Test 1 · ★★★ · Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy

A cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot soup for five minutes. Which handle is safe to hold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook, handle · What happens: leave, be, hold · To what, where: metal spoon

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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 cook leaves a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot soup for five minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spoon	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoon	compound
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoon	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spoon	det
9	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spoon	amod
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoon	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoon	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 soup	case
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 soup	amod
16	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 minutes	case
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 minutes	nummod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	a cook	a metal spoon and a plastic spoon in a pot of hot soup			minute		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=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.

Sentence 2: Which handle is safe to hold?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 handle	det
2	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 safe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which handle					safe property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	which handle not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The metal one, because metal stays cool while the soup is hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	compound
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hot	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stays	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 stays	mark
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	nsubj
7	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stays	xcomp
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 soup	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soup	det
11	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	xcomp
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	cop
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	metal	the soup				cool property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme one=Location
2	is	present	the metal one					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

Both, because heat cannot move up a spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ,	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 move	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 move	mark
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 move	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 move	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 move	advmod
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 move	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spoon	det
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move up	can	heat	a spoon					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme

Option 3

Neither, because plastic is the better conductor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	8 conductor	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 plastic	case
4	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conductor	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 conductor	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 conductor	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 conductor	amod
8	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the better conductor				because plastic; neither property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The plastic one, because plastic is a poor conductor of heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conductor	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 plastic	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 conductor	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 conductor	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 conductor	amod
10	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 heat	case
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conductor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the plastic one because plastic	a poor conductor				of heat	tree rules

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