Test 12 · ★★★ · Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy

my brother says a coat makes heat to keep you warm. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, coat, heat · What happens: say, make, keep · To what, where: heat, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	a coat	heat	true property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	heat not said here	you	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, coats make their own heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heat	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	coats	coats's own heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product
2	heat		coats = coat						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yes, wool burns slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 burns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	wool					slowly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, coats only keep rain off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep off	present	coats	rain					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, air trapped in it slows the heat leaving your body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 air	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slows	nsubj
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 air	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trapped	obl
7	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slows	obj
10	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 heat	acl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	trap	participle		air not said here	air	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination
2	slow	present	air	the heat		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
3	leave	gerund	the heat not said here	your body		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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