Test 3 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

«boiling hot, leave the fridge open to cool the kitchen» What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: boil, leave, cool, happen · To what, where: fridge, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 boiling	punct
2	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 leave	advcl
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boiling	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boiling	punct
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fridge	det
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leave	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cool	mark
10	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happen	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cool	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 cool	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 happen	advmod
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	boil in a quote	gerund	you not said here		hot property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the fridge	open property	tree rules
3	cool in a quote	to-infinitive		the kitchen		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient
4	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The fridge would fill the kitchen with snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fridge	det
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 snow	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	the fridge	the kitchen				with snow	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient with snow=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The kitchen would get warmer, because the fridge dumps its heat out the back while working harder

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitchen	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dumps	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 dumps	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fridge	det
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dumps	nsubj
10	dumps	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heat	nmod:poss
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dumps	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	10 dumps	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 back	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dumps	obl:unmarked
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 working	mark
17	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dumps	advcl
18	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	would	the kitchen		warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	dump out	present	the fridge	fridge's heat	the back obl:unmarked	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
3	work	gerund	the fridge not said here		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	heat		fridge			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The kitchen would cool like an air conditioner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitchen	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	aux
4	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 conditioner	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 conditioner	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conditioner	compound
8	conditioner	conditioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	would	the kitchen					like a air conditioner	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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