Test 7 · ★ · Baths, water at home and doors

Why should a grown-up know where the stopcock is?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stopcock · What happens: grow up, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 109 «Baths, water at home and doors» 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	4 grown	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grown	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 know	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 know	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stopcock	det
10	stopcock	stopcock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 where	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 where	cop
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow up	should			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the stopcock	where property	tree rules

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

It makes the water hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the water				hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product

Option 2

It switches the heating on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 switches	nsubj
2	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heating	det
4	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 switches	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	2 switches	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	present	It	the heating					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heating=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It turns off the water to stop a flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 turns	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turns	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flood	det
9	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	present	It	the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	stop	to-infinitive		a flood					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flood=Eventuality

Option 4

It turns off all the electricity in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 turns	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 electricity	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 electricity	det
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	present	It	all electricity		the house			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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