Test 4 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

«fridge is broke, the back's all warm!» What is the clever answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fridge, clever answer · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: «fridge is broke, the back's all warm!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	cop
4	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 back	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 warm	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broke	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	fridge					's the back; broke property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		fridge not said here						tree rules

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 is the clever answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the clever answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a warm back always means the motor is broken and needs fixing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 back	amod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 motor	det
9	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 means	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 needs	cc
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
14	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a warm back		always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	present · passive		the motor		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	need	present	a warm back not said here	fixing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fixing=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A warm back is normal: that is where the heat from inside goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 back	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 back	amod
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 normal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 normal	cop
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 where	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 where	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 where	cop
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 normal	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	nsubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 inside	case
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 heat	nmod
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 where	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a warm back	normal property	tree rules
2	is	present	that	where property	tree rules
3	go	present	the heat		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The fridge is about to catch fire

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 about	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fridge					about property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	the fridge not said here	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 4

The food is cooking the fridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooking	aux
4	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fridge	det
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · progressive	the food	the fridge					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fridge=Patient

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