Exam question 1 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

Identify the principal reason for which devices on standby ought to be switched off at the wall when not in use.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, switch off · To what, where: principal reason, devices, wall

This is exam question 1 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 switched	obl
7	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 switched	nsubj:pass
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 standby	case
9	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 devices	nmod
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 switched	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	13 switched	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 switched	aux:pass
13	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 switched	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 switched	obl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 use	mark
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 use	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 use	case
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 switched	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	switch off	ought · passive	you not said here	devices on standby		the wall		for the principal reason	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

On standby they slowly charge the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 standby	case
2	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charge	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 charge	nsubj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 charge	advmod
5	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	they	the house		standby		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location house=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

On standby they still use electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 standby	case
2	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	electricity		standby	still		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient

Option 3

On standby they may record conversations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 standby	case
2	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 record	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 record	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 record	aux
5	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 record	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	may	they	conversations		standby			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme on standby=Destination

Option 4

On standby they make the picture brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 standby	case
2	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 picture	det
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

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

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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