Test 4 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom
Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling. What most likely caused them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Black spots · What happens: appear, cause · To what, where: bathroom ceiling, spots
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spots | amod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ceiling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ceiling | det |
| 6 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceiling | compound |
| 7 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appear | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Black spots | the bathroom ceiling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ceiling=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What most likely caused them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 caused | obj |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 likely | advmod |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 4 caused | advmod |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caused | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | spots = spot | likely property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer what=Theme they=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Too much toilet paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paper | amod |
| 3 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paper | compound |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Too much bright sunlight coming into the bathroom every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sunlight | amod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sunlight | amod |
| 4 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sunlight | acl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bathroom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bathroom | det |
| 8 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | much bright sunlight not said here | the bathroom | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bathroom=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Damp from steam that was not let out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steam | amod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 steam | case |
| 3 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 let | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 steam | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | let property | tree rules |
Option 4
Water that was too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 cold | advmod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Water | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Water | cold 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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