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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the sensation of coldness upon touching a metal object at ambient temperature? Exam question 2 of lesson 23 «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 2 · Heat moves: hot to cold

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the sensation of coldness upon touching a metal object at ambient temperature?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, touch, sense · **To what, where:** sensation, metal object, ambient temperature, coldness

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 23 «Heat moves: hot to cold» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the sensation of coldness upon touching a metal object at ambient temperature?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	coldness	coldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	ambient	ambient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the sensation of coldness |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund |  | a metal object |  | ambient temperature |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme object=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **sense** |  |  | coldness |  |  |  |  | nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The metal is necessarily of lower temperature than its surroundings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold:e2:o1:1
# text = The metal is necessarily of lower temperature than its surroundings
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the metal |  |  |  |  | of lower temperature; than metal's surroundings; necessarily *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sensation is wholly imaginary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold:e2:o2:1
# text = The sensation is wholly imaginary
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sensation |  |  |  |  | imaginary, wholly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Heat is withdrawn from the hand more rapidly by the metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold:e2:o3:1
# text = Heat is withdrawn from the hand more rapidly by the metal
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | present · passive |  | Heat |  | the hand |  | by the metal; rapidly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The metal emits cold into the hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold:e2:o4:1
# text = The metal emits cold into the hand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	emits	emit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emit** | present | the metal |  |  | the hand |  | cold *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source |

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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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