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Test 2 · ★ · Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules

Dad leaves the hall light on all evening "to save electricity". What would actually save more?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: leave, save · To what, where: hall light, electricity, more

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 27 «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths 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: Dad leaves the hall light on all evening "to save electricity".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	compound
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 evening	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 save	mark
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leaves	advcl
12	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 electricity	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Dad	the hall light			evening		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	save in a quote	to-infinitive	Dad not said here	electricity					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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: What would actually save more?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 save	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 save	advmod
4	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 save	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	would		more				actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary more=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Switching it off when no one is there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Switching	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Switching	compound:prt
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 there	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Switching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	gerund		it					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	no one					there property	tree rules

Option 2

Leaving it on all night as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leaving	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	1 Leaving	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		it			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Switching it on and off every single minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Switching	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Switching	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 off	cc
5	off	off	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 minute	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 minute	amod
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Switching	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	gerund		it			minute		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Using two lights instead of one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lights	nummod
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Using	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 one	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		two lights				instead one	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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