Test 7 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

Why open a window only briefly on a cold day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: open · To what, where: window

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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	2 open	advmod
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 briefly	advmod
6	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	2 open	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	a window			day	briefly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

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 right answer

It changes the air without wasting much heat

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 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 wasting	mark
6	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 changes	advcl
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heat	amod
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	the air					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	waste	gerund		much heat					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

Option 2

Cold air is bad for you at any time of the year

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	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cold air				time	for you; bad property	tree rules

Option 3

The window will freeze open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 freeze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	future	the window					open property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Fresh air is only useful in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fresh air				summer	useful property	tree rules

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