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Test 3 · ★ · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

A family wants to use less water and energy. Which change helps?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, change · What happens: want, use, help · To what, where: less water

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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: A family wants to use less water and energy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 use	mark
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 energy	cc
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a family						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	a family not said here	less water and energy					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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.

Sentence 2: Which change helps?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	which change						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Washing hands for a whole hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Washing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 hour	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hour	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		hands			hour		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

Leaving the shower running while choosing clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shower	det
3	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leaving	conj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 choosing	mark
6	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leaving	advcl
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 choosing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the shower					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose	gerund		clothes					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Taking shorter showers of about five minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 showers	amod
3	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		shorter showers of five minutes					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme

Option 4

Having a long bath every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bath	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bath	amod
4	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		a long bath			morning		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=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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