Test 8 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

«frozen food lasts for ever cos freezing kills germs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: frozen food, freezing · What happens: freeze, last, co, kill, be · To what, where: germs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	_	4 lasts	punct
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lasts	nsubj
4	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 cos	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 cos	advmod
7	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lasts	advcl
8	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kills	nsubj
9	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cos	ccomp
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kills	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 lasts	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lasts	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lasts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	last in a quote	present	frozen food				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	co in a quote	present	frozen food not said here		ever		tree rules
4	kill in a quote	present	freezing	germs			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Freezing stops germs growing, but they wake up when the food thaws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wake	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 wake	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wake	nsubj
8	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stops	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 wake	compound:prt
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 thaws	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thaws	nsubj
13	thaws	thaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wake	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	present	Freezing	germs	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Freezing not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake up	present	germs = germ		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	thaw	present	the food		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, every germ dies in the freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 dies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 germ	det
4	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 freezer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 freezer	det
8	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	every germ					in the freezer	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Attribute

Option 3

Frozen food goes off within a day, so it must be eaten straight away

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 goes	compound:prt
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eaten	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 eaten	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj:pass
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 eaten	aux:pass
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goes	parataxis
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 eaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present	Frozen food				day		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	eat	must · passive		food				away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Germs grow faster when frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Germs					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	participle	Germs not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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