Test 10 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

why does the metal bench feel colder than the wooden one when they're both out in the cold

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: metal bench, they · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: cold

This is test 10 of lesson 82 «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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	6 feel	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bench	det
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bench	compound
5	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 feel	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colder	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 out	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 out	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 out	cop
15	both	both	ADV	_	16 out	advmod
16	out	out	ADV	_	6 feel	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cold	det
19	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 out	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	the metal bench					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	they			the cold		both, out 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

Wood makes its own heat from the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	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	from	from	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

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

Option 2

Metal is always much colder than wood outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colder	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 colder	advmod
5	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colder	obl
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 colder	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Metal					than wood; cold, outside property	tree rules

Option 3

Metal pulls cold in from the air around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	Metal			the air		around air; cold property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Metal conducts heat away from your skin faster

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	away	away	ADV	_	3 heat	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skin	nmod:poss
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heat	obl
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 heat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat away	present	Metal conducts			your skin		away, fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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