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title: Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?" Best answer? — Solids, liquids and gases · tree and pragmatics
description: Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?" Best answer? Test 6 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 right.
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# Test 6 · Solids, liquids and gases

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Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?" Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:1
# text = Your sister asks: "Is fire a solid, a liquid or a gas?"
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | fire |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Mostly glowing hot gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:o1:1
# text = Mostly glowing hot gas
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  | hot gas |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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None, fire is not made of anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:o2:1
# text = None, fire is not made of anything
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | present · passive |  | None |  |  |  | of anything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A liquid made of pure light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:o3:1
# text = A liquid made of pure light
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a liquid *not said here* |  |  |  | of pure light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A solid you can't touch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:4-solids-liquids-and-gases:t6:o4:1
# text = A solid you can't touch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	solid	solid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | can | you | a solid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme solid=Co-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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