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title: wearing black on a sunny day, is that gonna be hot — Heat and temperature: how things warm… · tree and pragmatics
description: wearing black on a sunny day, is that gonna be hot Test 11 of lesson 82 «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

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wearing black on a sunny day, is that gonna be hot

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that · **What happens:** wear, be

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This is test 11 of lesson 82 «Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool» 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/82-heat-and-temperature/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t11:1
# text = wearing black on a sunny day, is that gonna be hot
1	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | hot *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 {#o1}

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No, colour makes no difference to heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t11:o1:1
# text = No, colour makes no difference to heat
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | colour | no difference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | to-infinitive | no difference *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Yes, dark dull surfaces absorb heat radiation better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, dark dull surfaces absorb heat radiation better
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	surfaces	surface	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	absorb	absorb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absorb** | present | dark dull surfaces | heat radiation |  |  |  | well *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal radiation=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, black clothes make their own heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, black clothes make their own heat
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | black clothes | clothes's own heat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product |
| 2 | **heat** |  | clothes |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, black reflects all the Sun's heat away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t11:o4:1
# text = No, black reflects all the Sun's heat away
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reflects	reflect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | present | black | the Sun's heat |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** |  | the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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