Test 5 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

Why do engineers change only one thing at a time when testing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: engineers · What happens: change, test · To what, where: one thing

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	4 change	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 change	nsubj
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thing	nummod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 testing	advmod
12	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 change	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · do-support	engineers	one thing			time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	test	gerund	engineers not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Because one change always fixes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 fixes	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 change	nummod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fixes	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 fixes	advmod
5	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	one change	it				always property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

So the test takes longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 takes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 test	det
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the test					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because changing more than one thing is against the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	2 changing	mark
2	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rules	advcl
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 one	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changing	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rules	cop
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 rules	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rules	det
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	gerund		one thing					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is	present						against the rules	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So they can tell which change made the difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 change	det
6	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 difference	det
9	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	they						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	which change	the difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=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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