Test 7 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

Why does leaving the fridge door open waste electricity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: leave · To what, where: fridge door

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 leaving	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leaving	aux
3	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaving	obj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 electricity	amod
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 electricity	compound
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaving	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 leaving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · do-support		the fridge door					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent door=Theme electricity=Attribute

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The open door makes the motor turn backwards and use more power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 motor	det
6	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
8	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 power	amod
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	the open door	the motor		tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	the motor not said here		backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	use	present	the open door not said here	more power		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fridge must work harder to cool the warm air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fridge	det
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 work	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cool	mark
7	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 work	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	must	the fridge					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cool	to-infinitive	the fridge not said here	the warm air					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient

Option 3

Cold air makes the fridge switch off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fridge	det
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 switch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cold air	the fridge					tree rules
2	switch off	infinitive	the fridge not said here						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The fridge light uses up all the power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	compound
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 uses	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 power	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present	the fridge light	all power					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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