Test 9 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

Why does a fridge only slow food from going bad, and not stop it forever?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, slow food · What happens: do, go, not stop · To what, where: fridge, food

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stop	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fridge	det
4	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 food	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fridge	conj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 food	acl
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stop	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stop	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stop	advmod
14	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stop	obj
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 stop	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	you not said here	a fridge and slow food		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fridge=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	slow food not said here		bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not stop	imperative	you not said here	food	forever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cold slows bacteria but does not kill them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kill	cc
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 kill	advmod
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 slows	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Cold	bacteria					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bacteria=Patient
2	not kill	present · do-support	Cold not said here	them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Bacteria grow faster in the dark of a fridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fridge	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fridge	det
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bacteria			the dark of a fridge		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3

Fridges warm up at night and cook the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fridges	fridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warm	nsubj
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 warm	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cook	cc
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warm	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	Fridges				night		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cook	infinitive	Fridges not said here	the food					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Food goes bad only because of its date label

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 label	advmod
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 label	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 date	nmod:poss
8	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 label	compound
9	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Food					because date label; bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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