Exam question 3 · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the maintenance of a cool dwelling in hot weather.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, maintain · To what, where: response, maintenance, cool dwelling

This is exam question 3 of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maintenance	det
13	maintenance	maintenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 dwelling	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dwelling	det
16	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dwelling	amod
17	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maintenance	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 weather	case
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 weather	amod
20	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dwelling	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the maintenance of a cool dwelling in hot weather		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus maintenance=Experiencer
5	maintain			a cool dwelling in hot weather		nom maintenance «act transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Close curtains by day, open windows at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 curtains	amod
2	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curtains	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 windows	punct
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 windows	amod
7	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 curtains	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 windows	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Keep all windows closed and the heater on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 windows	det
3	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Keep	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heater	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heater	det
7	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep on	imperative	you not said here	all windows					tree rules
2	close	participle	all windows not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Open the fridge door to cool down the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Open	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cool	mark
6	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Open	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cool	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	the fridge door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	cool down	to-infinitive	you not said here	the room					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient

Option 4

Open curtains by day, shut windows at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 curtains	amod
2	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curtains	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 windows	punct
6	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 windows	amod
7	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 curtains	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 windows	nmod

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

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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