Test 5 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests
Uncle Pete unplugs his phone at 80% and leaves it in a hot car all afternoon. Which habit is worse for the battery?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle, habit · What happens: unplug, leave, be · To what, where: phone, hot car
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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: Uncle Pete unplugs his phone at 80% and leaves it in a hot car all afternoon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 unplugs | nsubj |
| 2 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | unplugs | unplug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 phone | nmod:poss |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unplugs | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 % | case |
| 7 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 % | nummod |
| 8 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 3 unplugs | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaves | cc |
| 10 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unplugs | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaves | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 car | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 car | amod |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaves | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 afternoon | det |
| 17 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaves | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unplugs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | present | Uncle | Uncle's phone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | Uncle not said here | phone | a hot car | afternoon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in car=Location |
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 is worse for the battery?
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 | 4 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worse | cop |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 battery | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battery | det |
| 7 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worse | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 worse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which habit | for the battery; bad property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Unplugging it when it hits 80%
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unplugging | unplug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unplugging | obj |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 hits | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hits | nsubj |
| 5 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unplugging | advcl |
| 6 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 % | nummod |
| 7 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 5 hits | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | gerund | it | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hit | present | it | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Co-Theme |
Option 2
Charging it at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charging | charge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Charging | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Charging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | gerund | it | night | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme |
Option 3
Turning it off sometimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Turning | obj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Turning | compound:prt |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 1 Turning | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off | gerund | it | sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Leaving it in the hot car
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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 car | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 car | det |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 car | amod |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | it | the hot car | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in car=Location |
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