Test 6 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

Which is the best way to light a room during a power cut?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, light · To what, where: best way, room

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 light	mark
7	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	obj
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 cut	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cut	det
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	compound
13	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best way					tree rules
2	light	to-infinitive		a room			during a power cut		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product

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

Use a lighter for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lighter	det
3	lighter	lighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a lighter			hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lighter=Patient

Option 2

Light candles near the curtains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 candles	compound
2	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 curtains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 curtains	det
5	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 candles	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Use a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 torch	det
3	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a torch					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient

Option 4

Turn on the gas hob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 hob	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hob	det
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hob	compound
5	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here			the gas hob			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hob=Trajectory

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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