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title: "steam's just hot water innit, it can't burn worse" Is that right? — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: "steam's just hot water innit, it can't burn worse" Is that right? Test 3 of lesson 4 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · Solids, liquids and gases

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"steam's just hot water innit, it can't burn worse" Is that right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** innit, hot water innit · **What happens:** not burn, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 4 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t3:1
# text = "steam's just hot water innit, it can't burn worse" Is that right?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** *in a quote* | can | innit |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | steam's hot water innit |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, steam gives out extra heat as it turns back to water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t3:o1:1
# text = No, steam gives out extra heat as it turns back to water
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | present | steam | extra heat |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **turn back** | present | steam |  |  | water |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to water=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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No, steam burns because it is on fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t3:o2:1
# text = No, steam burns because it is on fire
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | steam |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | steam |  |  | fire |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, steam can't burn at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, steam can't burn at all
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | can | steam |  |  | all |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, steam is always much cooler than the boiling water it came from

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t3:o4:1
# text = Yes, steam is always much cooler than the boiling water it came from
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | steam |  |  |  |  | than the boiling water; cool *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | steam | the boiling water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |

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**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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