Test 1 · ★★ · Heating, water pipes and drains

dad cranked the thermostat to 30 so it heats faster. does it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, thermostat · What happens: crank, heat, do · To what, where: thermostat

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cranked	nsubj
2	cranked	crank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thermostat	det
4	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cranked	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 30	case
6	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 cranked	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 heats	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heats	nsubj
9	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cranked	parataxis
10	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 heats	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heats	punct
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 heats	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 does	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cranked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crank	past	dad	the thermostat	to 30	tree rules
2	heat	present	thermostat		fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	do	present	thermostat not said here	thermostat		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

No, it heats at the same speed, just to a hotter end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 heats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heats	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heats	nsubj
4	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 speed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speed	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speed	amod
8	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 end	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 end	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 end	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 end	det
13	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 end	amod
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	it			the same speed	to a hotter end		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to end=Result

Option 2

Yes, twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fast	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

No, it makes the house colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the house				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material house=Product

Option 4

Yes, the boiler burns double gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 burns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boiler	det
4	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	nsubj
5	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gas	amod
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the boiler	double gas					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=Theme

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