Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy

why's the metal spoon in my tea hot but the wooden one not

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hot	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spoon	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	compound
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hot	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tea	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tea	nmod:poss
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoon	nmod
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hot	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	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 · ← Mova's choice

The tea just likes metal more, it sticks to it harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tea	det
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 likes	advmod
4	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 likes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sticks	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sticks	nsubj
9	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likes	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sticks	obl
12	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 sticks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the tea	metal					tree rules
2	stick	present	tea		metal			hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient

Option 2

Metal makes its own heat whenever it gets dunked in tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	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
6	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 dunked	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dunked	nsubj:pass
8	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dunked	aux:pass
9	dunked	dunk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 makes	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 tea	case
11	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dunked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Metal	Metal's own heat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product
2	dunk	present · passive		Metal	tea	whenever property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in tea=Trajectory
3	heat		Metal				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Metal conducts heat well, wood conducts it poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	compound
2	conducts	conduct	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heat	nsubj
3	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 heat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 conducts	punct
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conducts	nsubj
7	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heat	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 conducts	obj
9	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	7 conducts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	Metal conducts					well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	conduct	present	wood	it				poorly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Wood is colder inside, it's like full of tiny ice bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 colder	cop
3	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 colder	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 full	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 full	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 full	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 full	case
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colder	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 bits	case
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bits	amod
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bits	compound
13	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wood					cold, inside property	tree rules
2	is	present	Wood					of tiny ice bits; full property	tree rules

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