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description: Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine. Which melts first? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★

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Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine. Which melts first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dirty snow · **What happens:** lie, melt · **To what, where:** side, sunshine

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics 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/physics/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:1
# text = Dirty snow and clean snow lie side by side in the sunshine.
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Dirty snow and clean snow | side |  | the sunshine |  | by side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |

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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:* Which melts first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:2
# text = Which melts first?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Neither, ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:o1:1
# text = Neither, ever
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Both at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:o2:1
# text = Both at once
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The clean snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:o3:1
# text = The clean snow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The dirty snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t11:o4:1
# text = The dirty snow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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