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title: Ice cubes float in a glass of water filled exactly to the brim. What… — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics
description: Ice cubes float in a glass of water filled exactly to the brim. What happens as they melt? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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 w
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Clever reasoning about water and matter

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Ice cubes float in a glass of water filled exactly to the brim. What happens as they melt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ice cubes, cubes · **What happens:** float, fill, happen, melt · **To what, where:** glass, water

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Clever reasoning about water and matter» 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/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ice cubes float in a glass of water filled exactly to the brim.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:1
# text = Ice cubes float in a glass of water filled exactly to the brim.
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | Ice cubes |  |  | a glass of water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glass=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  | to the brim | vn other\_cos-45.4 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happens as they melt?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:2
# text = What happens as they melt?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | present | cubes *= cube* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It overflows only if the cubes were big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:o1:1
# text = It overflows only if the cubes were big
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	overflows	overflow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the cubes |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The water level stays about the same and it does not overflow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:o2:1
# text = The water level stays about the same and it does not overflow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | the water level |  |  |  |  | about the same | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about same=Location |
| 2 | **not** **overflow** | present · do-support | level |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It overflows, because the ice turns into more water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:o3:1
# text = It overflows, because the ice turns into more water
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	overflows	overflow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the ice |  |  | more water |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The level drops well below the brim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t7:o4:1
# text = The level drops well below the brim
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	below	below	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | the level |  |  | the brim |  | well *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme below brim=Trajectory |

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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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