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Test 1 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

A family takes baths every day and then switches to short showers. What two things do they save?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, two things · What happens: take, switch, save · To what, where: baths

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 89 «Saving water and energy at home» 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 family takes baths every day and then switches to short showers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 takes	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 switches	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 switches	advmod
9	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 showers	case
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 showers	amod
12	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 switches	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a family	baths			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme
2	switch	present	a family not said here				then	to short showers result	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shower=Result

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 two things do they save?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 save	obj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 things	nummod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 save	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 save	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 save	nsubj
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · do-support	two things						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

Only the soap they use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 soap	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soap	det
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soap	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	the soap not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Patient

Option 2

Only the cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because showers use more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 use	mark
4	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	showers	more water					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Water and the energy to heat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 energy	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 heat	mark
6	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Water	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	to-infinitive		energy					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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