Test 14 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

hair dryer in the bath while i'm in it, to warm up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, hair dryer · What happens: be, warm up · To what, where: bath

This is test 14 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dryer	compound
2	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warm	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bath	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dryer	nmod
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 it	mark
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 it	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bath	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warm	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 warm	mark
13	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 warm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	i	the bath not said here		bath			tree rules
2	warm up	to-infinitive	hair dryer in the bath						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Only for a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 minute	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 minute	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minute	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never, electricity and water can kill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 kill	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 electricity	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	can	electricity and water						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Fine if you hold it high

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	_	4 hold	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obj
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	you	it				high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Fine if it's on low

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	_	6 low	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 low	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 low	cop
5	on	on	ADV	_	6 low	advmod
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fine	advcl

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

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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