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Test 3 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

«shut that fridge, u'll waste the cold» says Mum. What did families do before fridges?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, Mum, families · What happens: shut, waste, say, do · To what, where: fridge, cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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: «shut that fridge, u'll waste the cold» says Mum.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fridge	det
4	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waste	punct
6	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 waste	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 waste	aux
8	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cold	det
10	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waste	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut in a quote	infinitive		that fridge					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fridge=Patient
2	waste in a quote	future	u	the cold					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: What did families do before fridges?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 fridges	case
6	fridges	fridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	families				before fridges		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Never ate any fresh food at all, only bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ate	advmod
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 food	det
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ate	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bread	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 bread	advmod
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past		any fresh food		all		bread obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shopped often and kept food in cellars or with ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shopped	shop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kept	advcl
2	often	often	ADV	_	1 Shopped	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 cellars	case
7	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ice	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cellars	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shop	participle						often property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past		food		cellars or ice			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in cellar=Location

Option 3

Ate only frozen pizza from the shop every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 pizza	advmod
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pizza	amod
4	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		frozen pizza		the shop	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from shop=Source
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Kept their food in the oven, where it always stayed cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 food	nmod:poss
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kept	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kept	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stayed	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 stayed	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stayed	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 stayed	advmod
11	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kept	conj
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		their food		the oven			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in oven=Location
2	stay	past	food					always, cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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