Test 5 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

«how can u heat a house with freezing air, that's mental» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, that · What happens: heat, be · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	_	5 heat	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heat	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heat	aux
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 heat	nsubj
5	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heat	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	freezing	freezing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mental	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 mental	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mental	cop
14	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heat	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mental	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mental	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 heat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	heat in a quote	can	u	a house	with freezing air	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent house=Patient with air=Instrument
2	is in a quote	present	that		mental property	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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.

The options

Option 1

You can't, heat pumps only ever work in summer, when the air is already warm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pumps	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pumps	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pumps	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 n't	punct
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pumps	nsubj
6	pumps	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 work	advmod
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 work	advmod
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pumps	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warm	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 warm	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warm	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 warm	cop
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 warm	advmod
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 work	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not pump	can	You			tree rules
2	work	infinitive	You not said here	ever; summer		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the air		warm property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Even cold air holds some heat, and a heat pump collects it and pumps it in

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 holds	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 collects	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 collects	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pump	det
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pump	compound
11	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 collects	nsubj
12	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holds	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 collects	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pumps	cc
15	pumps	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holds	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pumps	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	15 pumps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	cold air	some heat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	collect	present	a heat pump	heat	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	pump in	present	cold air not said here	heat	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Heat pumps melt ice to make fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pumps	compound
2	pumps	pump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	nsubj
3	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 melt	advcl
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Heat pumps	ice					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result
2	make	to-infinitive	Heat pumps not said here	fire					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 4

Heat pumps burn the cold air for fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pumps	compound
2	pumps	pump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	nsubj
3	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fuel	case
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	Heat pumps	the cold air				for fuel	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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