Test 15 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

drying my socks on the heater

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dry · To what, where: socks, heater

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 socks	nmod:poss
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 drying	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 heater	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heater	det
6	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	gerund		my socks		the heater			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sock=Result

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

Fine if they're thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 thin	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thin	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					thin property	tree rules

Option 2

Cover it all to dry faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cover	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dry	mark
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cover	advcl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	imperative	you not said here	it					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
2	dry	to-infinitive	you not said here					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Don't cover the heater, it can catch fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 cover	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 cover	advmod
3	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heater	det
5	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cover	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 catch	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 catch	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 catch	aux
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cover	conj
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cover	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the heater					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heater=Destination
2	catch	can	heater	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 4

Only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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