Test 10 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

shower or bath, which saves more water

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shower · What happens: save · To what, where: more water

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 bath	cc
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shower	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saves	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 saves	nsubj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	shower or bath	more water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

A long shower uses less than any bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shower	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shower	amod
3	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 uses	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 less	fixed
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bath	det
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a long shower	less					tree rules

Option 2

They always use exactly the same water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 water	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A full bath usually uses much less water than a shower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bath	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bath	amod
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 uses	advmod
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 shower	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shower	det
11	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a full bath	less water				than a shower; usually property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A short shower usually uses much less water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shower	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shower	amod
3	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 uses	advmod
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	obj

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

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