Exam question 2 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

Identify the designation of heat carried by moving liquids or gases.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, carry, move, designate · To what, where: designation, heat

This is exam question 2 of lesson 82 «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 heat	case
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 designation	nmod
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 liquids	case
8	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 liquids	amod
9	liquids	liquid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carried	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 gases	cc
11	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 liquids	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the designation of heat		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme
2	carry	participle		the designation of heat not said here	by moving liquids or gases	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	designate			heat		nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Radiation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Conduction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conduction	conduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Convection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Convection	convection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Insulation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insulation	insulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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