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Test 9 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows. Which needs less fuel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: heat, have, need · To what, where: Two identical houses, fluffy loft insulation, less fuel

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics 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: Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 houses	nummod
2	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heated	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heated	aux:pass
5	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 has	cc
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heated	conj
12	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 insulation	amod
13	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 insulation	compound
14	insulation	insulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 windows	cc
16	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 windows	amod
17	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 insulation	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present · passive		Two identical houses			winter		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	have	present	one	fluffy loft insulation and double windows					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insulation=Patient

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 needs less fuel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fuel	amod
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		less fuel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The house without insulation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 insulation	case
4	insulation	insulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 house	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Both need exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Both					same property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Neither needs any fuel at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fuel	det
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Neither	any fuel		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The insulated house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	insulated	insulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insulate	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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