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title: A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold. Why? — Melting, freezing, boiling and condens… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold. Why? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 5 «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» 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 9 · ★ · Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing

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A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bag · **What happens:** feel, hold

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 5 «Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing» 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/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:1
# text = A bag of ice and salt feels too cold to hold.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | a bag of ice and salt |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a bag of ice and salt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The salt in the bag is frozen solid, and frozen salt is the coldest thing there is

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:o1:1
# text = The salt in the bag is frozen solid, and frozen salt is the coldest thing there is
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	coldest	cold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present · passive |  | the salt in the bag |  |  |  | solid *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present | frozen salt | the coldest thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | the coldest thing *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bag is made of cold plastic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:o2:1
# text = The bag is made of cold plastic
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the bag |  |  |  | of cold plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Salt bites the skin like a crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:o3:1
# text = Salt bites the skin like a crab
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | Salt | the skin |  |  |  | like a crab | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The salted ice melts and draws heat from everything around, your hands too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing:t9:o4:1
# text = The salted ice melts and draws heat from everything around, your hands too
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	salted	salt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
10	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **melt** | present | the salted ice | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hand=Result |
| 3 | **draw** | present | the salted ice *not said here* | heat |  | everything |  | around *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from everything=Initial\_Location |

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