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Test 8 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing

My brother says the dishwasher always wastes more water than washing by hand. Right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, dishwasher · What happens: say, waste, wash · To what, where: more water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» 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: My brother says the dishwasher always wastes more water than washing by hand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dishwasher	det
5	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wastes	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 wastes	advmod
7	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wastes	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 washing	mark
11	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wastes	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 hand	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	waste	present	the dishwasher	more water				always property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	wash	gerund	the dishwasher not said here					by hand	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, three times as much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 times	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 times	amod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it uses no water at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 uses	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	it	no water		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it uses a full bath each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bath	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bath	amod
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	it	a full bath			time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, a dishwasher often uses less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 uses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 uses	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dishwasher	det
4	dishwasher	dishwasher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 uses	advmod
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 uses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a dishwasher					less, often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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