Test 6 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

Why does a saucepan often have a plastic or wooden handle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: saucepan, plastic

This is test 6 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 have	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 saucepan	det
4	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plastic	det
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 handle	cc
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handle	amod
11	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plastic	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a saucepan					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Eventuality
2	have	present		a plastic or wooden handle				often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient

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

They conduct heat well, so the food cooks fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conduct	nsubj
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conduct	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 conduct	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cooks	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 cooks	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooks	nsubj
9	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 conduct	parataxis
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 cooks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	They	heat				well property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	cook	present	the food					fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They conduct heat poorly, so the handle stays cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conduct	nsubj
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conduct	obj
4	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	2 conduct	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 stays	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 handle	det
8	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 conduct	parataxis
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	They	heat				poorly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	stay	present	the handle					cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They make the pan heat up more evenly inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pan	det
4	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 heat	compound:prt
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 evenly	advmod
8	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	9 inside	advmod
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 heat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the pan					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product
2	heat up	present	They not said here					inside property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They are stronger than metal when they are hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stronger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stronger	cop
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 metal	case
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stronger	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hot	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hot	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hot	cop
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stronger	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than metal; strong property	tree rules
2	is	present	they					hot property	tree rules

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