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title: A teacher pours an ice giant into a glass in a cartoon, and out come… — Uranus and Neptune · tree and pragmatics
description: A teacher pours an ice giant into a glass in a cartoon, and out comes snow. what's wrong? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» of the space 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 3 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune

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A teacher pours an ice giant into a glass in a cartoon, and out comes snow. what's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** pour, come, be · **To what, where:** ice giant, glass, snow

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» of the space 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/space/14-uranus-and-neptune/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:14-uranus-and-neptune:t3:1
# text = A teacher pours an ice giant into a glass in a cartoon, and out comes snow. what's wrong?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pours	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | present | a teacher | a ice giant |  | a glass |  | in a cartoon | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent giant=Theme into glass=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | present |  | snow |  |  |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snow=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Inside it is hot, dense slush, not cold snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:14-uranus-and-neptune:t3:o1:1
# text = Inside it is hot, dense slush, not cold snow
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slush	slush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  | hot dense slush and cold snow |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It should be liquid iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:14-uranus-and-neptune:t3:o2:1
# text = It should be liquid iron
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | should | It | liquid iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, it is all snow inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:14-uranus-and-neptune:t3:o3:1
# text = Nothing, it is all snow inside
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing | all snow |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It should be empty space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:14-uranus-and-neptune:t3:o4:1
# text = It should be empty space
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | should | It | empty space |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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