Test 2 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

Which is true about warm water in a lake in summer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lake

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lake	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				a lake in summer		about warm water; true 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

Warm and cold water always mix evenly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Warm	conj
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mix	obl
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 mix	advmod
6	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	6 mix	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present		Warm water				always, evenly property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The water warms from the bottom upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warms	nsubj
3	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warms	obl
7	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	3 warms	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	the water			the bottom		upwards property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Warm water sinks and stays at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sinks	nsubj
3	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stays	cc
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sinks	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	Warm water						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	present	Warm water not said here			the bottom			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Warm water rises and stays near the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stays	cc
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	conj
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Warm water						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present	Warm water not said here			the top			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near top=Location

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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