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Test 7 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature

A child's thermometer shows 39 degrees Celsius. What does it suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thermometer · What happens: show, suggest · To what, where: 39 degrees

This is test 7 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 child's thermometer shows 39 degrees Celsius.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thermometer	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 degrees	nummod
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shows	obj
8	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 degrees	nmod:unmarked
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a child's thermometer	39 degrees Celsius					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent degree=Recipient

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: What does it suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	thermometer						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Water would freeze on the child's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 skin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	Water			the child's skin			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The temperature is normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temperature	det
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 normal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	cop
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

The child's body is too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child's body					cold property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The child has a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fever	det
5	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the child	a fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient

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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