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Test 11 · ★ · Paying for a home and the bills

You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad". Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Dad · What happens: leave, say · To what, where: kettle half, good lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 half	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 half	compound
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 leave	obj
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 half	amod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 cup	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cup	nmod:poss
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cup	nummod
10	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 tea	case
12	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cup	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
15	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	advcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 lad	punct
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lad	amod
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 lad	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	You	the kettle half					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Dad	good lad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lad=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A full kettle can break the smart meter and the fuse box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kettle	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kettle	amod
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 break	aux
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meter	det
7	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meter	amod
8	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 box	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
11	fuse	fuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 box	compound
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	can	a full kettle	the smart meter and the fuse box					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meter=Patient

Option 2

The landlord only allows half a kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allows	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 allows	advmod
4	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 kettle	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kettle	det
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present	the landlord	half kettle					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Beneficiary

Option 3

Half-full kettles boil hotter water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 full	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kettles	amod
4	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boil	nsubj
5	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boil	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present	full kettles	hotter water					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Boiling only the water you need uses less energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 uses	csubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boiling	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	acl:relcl
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 energy	amod
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund		the water					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	need	present	you	the water not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
3	use	present	Boiling	less energy					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

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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