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Test 4 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

A black car and a white car stand in the sun all day. Which one is hotter inside?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black car, one · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: sun

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: A black car and a white car stand in the sun all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 car	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	conj
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a black car and a white car			the sun	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

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.

Sentence 2: Which one is hotter inside?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hotter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hotter	cop
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 hotter	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hotter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which one					hot, inside property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The white car, because white keeps heat in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 car	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 white	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	nmod
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	7 keeps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in	present	the white car because white	heat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The black car, because it absorbs more radiation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorbs	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 absorbs	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 absorbs	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 absorbs	nsubj
7	absorbs	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 radiation	amod
9	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorbs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	present	the black car	more radiation					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal radiation=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Both the same, because the sun is the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	3 same	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 same	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 same	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sun					same property	tree rules

Option 4

The white car, because it absorbs more radiation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorbs	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 absorbs	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 absorbs	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 absorbs	nsubj
7	absorbs	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 radiation	amod
9	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorbs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	present	the white car	more radiation					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal radiation=Theme

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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