Test 6 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

To test whether sugar dissolves faster in hot water, what is the fair way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sugar, hot water · What happens: test, dissolve, be · To what, where: fair way

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 dissolves	mark
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dissolves	nsubj
5	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 test	advcl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dissolves	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 way	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	dissolve	present	sugar		fast property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	hot water and the fair way	the fair way		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 · ✓ the right answer

Same amount of sugar and water, change only the temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 amount	amod
2	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sugar	case
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 amount	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sugar	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 change	punct
8	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 amount	acl:relcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 temperature	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 temperature	det
11	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	infinitive	Same amount of sugar and water not said here	the temperature					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	amount			sugar and water					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hot water with more sugar and cold water with less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sugar	amod
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sugar	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 less	case
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Stir only the cold cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 cup	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cup	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cup	amod
5	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stir	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	imperative	you not said here	the cold cup					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cup=Experiencer

Option 4

Use a big cup for the hot water and a small cup for the cold

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cup	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cup	amod
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cup	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cup	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cup	amod
12	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 cold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cold	det
15	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a big cup				for the hot water and a small cup; for the cold	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent cup=Theme for water=Eventuality

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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