Test 2 · Wasting food and water
water's been running 2 minutes while u brush. Which is closest to how much is wasted?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: run, be, waste · To what, where: much
This is test 2 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» 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: water's been running 2 minutes while u brush.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 running | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 brush | mark |
| 8 | u | u | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brush | amod |
| 9 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present · progressive | water | minute | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Which is closest to how much is wasted?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 closest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closest | cop |
| 3 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 wasted | mark |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wasted | aux:pass |
| 8 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 closest | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | close property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | waste | present · passive | much | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One cup exactly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 cup | nummod |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 cup | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None, it goes back to the tap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tap | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tap | det |
| 8 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | None | to the tap result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tap=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Several litres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 litres | amod |
| 2 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Just a few drops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 drops | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drops | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drops | amod |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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