Test 13 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool
my sister reckons cold flows into ur drink from the ice. right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, cold · What happens: reckon, flow · To what, where: drink
This is test 13 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flows | nsubj |
| 5 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckons | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 drink | case |
| 7 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drink | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flows | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ice | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 reckons | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my sister | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flow | present | cold | ur's drink from the ice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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
No, heat flows from the ice into the drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 heat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | nsubj |
| 4 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 drink | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | heat | the ice | into the drink | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, heat flows from the warm drink into the colder ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 heat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | nsubj |
| 4 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 drink | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drink | det |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drink | amod |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ice | det |
| 11 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 ice | amod |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | heat | the warm drink | into the colder ice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, but only when the drink is fizzy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 fizzy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fizzy | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 fizzy | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fizzy | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drink | det |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fizzy | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fizzy | cop |
| 9 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the drink | fizzy property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, cold always flows from ice into drinks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 flows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flows | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 flows | advmod |
| 5 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flows | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 drinks | case |
| 9 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | cold | ice | into drinks; always property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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