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title: Why does a saucepan often have a plastic or wooden handle? — Heat and temperature: how things warm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a saucepan often have a plastic or wooden handle? Test 6 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 6 · Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why does a saucepan often have a plastic or wooden handle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** saucepan, plastic

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t6:1
# text = Why does a saucepan often have a plastic or wooden handle?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a saucepan |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a plastic or wooden handle |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=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 {#o1}

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They conduct heat well, so the food cooks fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t6:o1:1
# text = They conduct heat well, so the food cooks fast
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cooks	cook	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | present | They | heat |  |  |  | well *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | present | the food |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They conduct heat poorly, so the handle stays cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t6:o2:1
# text = They conduct heat poorly, so the handle stays cool
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | present | They | heat |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the handle |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They make the pan heat up more evenly inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t6:o3:1
# text = They make the pan heat up more evenly inside
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	heat	heat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	evenly	evenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the pan |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pan=Product |
| 2 | **heat up** | present | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are stronger than metal when they are hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:82-heat-and-temperature:t6:o4:1
# text = They are stronger than metal when they are hot
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | than metal; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | 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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