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Test 7 · ★★ · Materials and their properties

A builder puts a thick fluffy layer of insulation in a roof. What is it for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: builder · What happens: put, be · To what, where: thick fluffy layer, roof, builder

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» of the world 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: A builder puts a thick fluffy layer of insulation in a roof.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 builder	det
2	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 layer	det
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 layer	amod
6	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 layer	amod
7	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 insulation	case
9	insulation	insulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 layer	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 roof	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 roof	det
12	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	a builder	a thick fluffy layer of insulation		a roof			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent layer=Theme in roof=Destination

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 it for?

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	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	1 What	case
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To make the roof heavier in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the roof		the wind		heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To stop heat escaping from the house in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
4	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 heat	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaping	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		heat			winter		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heat=Eventuality
2	escape	gerund	heat not said here			the house			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location

Option 3

To make the rooms brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rooms	det
4	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the rooms				bright property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product

Option 4

To make the roof waterproof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the roof				waterproof property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product

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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