Test 8 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

Why is it a good idea to decide what you want before opening the fridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, decide, want, open · To what, where: good idea, fridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decide	mark
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 want	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 decide	ccomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 opening	mark
13	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 want	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fridge	det
15	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opening	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		a good idea	tree rules
2	decide	to-infinitive			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present	you		tree rules
4	open not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	the fridge	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fridge=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The door stays open for less time, so the fridge stays cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stays	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stays	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 stays	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fridge	det
11	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stays	nsubj
12	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stays	conj
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the door				time	open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	the fridge					cold property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The fridge light lasts longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	compound
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lasts	nsubj
4	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 lasts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	the fridge light					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The food tastes better and fresher when you choose it that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	nsubj
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tastes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fresher	cc
6	fresher	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 better	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 choose	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 choose	nsubj
9	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tastes	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 choose	obj
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the food					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	choose	present	you	food					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary way=Theme

Option 4

You can eat more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	You	more food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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