Test 6 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Why close the curtains on a hot sunny afternoon?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: close · To what, where: curtains

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 close	advmod
2	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curtains	det
4	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 close	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 afternoon	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 afternoon	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 afternoon	amod
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 afternoon	amod
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 close	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	the curtains			afternoon		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=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

They make the air wetter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 make	obj
5	wetter	wet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the air				wet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product

Option 2

They make the sun go down sooner so evening comes early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 make	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 comes	advmod
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
11	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the sun	soon property	tree rules
2	go down	infinitive	the sun not said here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	come	present	evening		early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They keep the sun's heat out of the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sun	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	They	the sun's heat		the room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out room=Location
2	heat		the sun						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They let more cool air in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cool	advmod
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	2 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	present	They	cool air					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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