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title: Which takes up more space: one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of li… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: Which takes up more space: one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water? Test 8 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 8 · Melting, freezing and boiling

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Which takes up more space: one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** take up · **To what, where:** more space

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t8:1
# text = Which takes up more space: one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | present |  | more space and one kilogram of ice or one kilogram of liquid water |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They take exactly the same space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t8:o1:1
# text = They take exactly the same space
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | They | the same space |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It depends on the shape of the container

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t8:o2:1
# text = It depends on the shape of the container
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	container	container	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | It |  |  |  |  | on the shape of the container | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on shape=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The liquid water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t8:o3:1
# text = The liquid water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:12-melting-freezing-boiling:t8:o4:1
# text = The ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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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