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Test 4 · ★ · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…

A family wants to use less water. Which habit helps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, habit · What happens: want, use, help · To what, where: less water

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, 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.

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	.	.	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					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 habit helps?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 habit	det
2	habit	habit	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 habit						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Washing every cup under running water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cup	det
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		every cup		running water			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Taking five-minute showers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minute	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 five	punct
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showers	compound
5	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj

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

Option 3

Leaving the tap running while brushing

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 tap	det
3	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leaving	conj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 brushing	mark
6	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 running	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the tap					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Theme
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	brush	gerund							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Taking very long baths every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 baths	amod
4	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		long baths			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme

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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