Test 11 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

wearing black on a sunny day, is that gonna be hot

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: wear, be

This is test 11 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	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hot	advcl
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wearing	xcomp
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 black	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wearing	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hot	cop
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 hot	nsubj
10	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	12 hot	nsubj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hot	cop
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund	that not said here					black property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					hot 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

No, colour makes no difference to heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 colour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 difference	det
6	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 heat	mark
8	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	colour	no difference					tree rules
2	heat	to-infinitive	no difference not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, dark dull surfaces absorb heat radiation better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 absorb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surfaces	amod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surfaces	amod
5	surfaces	surface	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 absorb	nsubj
6	absorb	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 radiation	compound
8	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 absorb	obj
9	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 absorb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	present	dark dull surfaces	heat radiation				well property	vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal radiation=Theme

Option 3

Yes, black clothes make their own heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clothes	amod
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heat	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heat	amod
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

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

Option 4

No, black reflects all the Sun's heat away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reflects	nsubj
4	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 heat	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 heat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sun	case
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflects	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 reflects	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	black	the Sun's heat				away property	tree rules
2	heat		the Sun						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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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