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title: Which needs the highest temperature to melt? — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: Which needs the highest temperature to melt? Test 7 of lesson 12 «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world 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 7 · Melting, freezing and boiling

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Which needs the highest temperature to melt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** need, melt · **To what, where:** highest temperature

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This is test 7 of lesson 12 «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the world 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/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t7:1
# text = Which needs the highest temperature to melt?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present |  | the highest temperature |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot temperature=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | to-infinitive |  | the highest temperature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t7:o1:1
# text = Iron
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t7:o2:1
# text = Chocolate
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Butter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t7:o3:1
# text = Butter
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t7:o4:1
# text = Ice
1	Ice	ice	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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