Test 11 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

telly's off but the little light's still on, is it using power

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: off · What happens: use · To what, where: power

This is test 11 · ★ 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	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 off	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 telly	case
3	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 using	nsubj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 on	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 on	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 light	case
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 on	advmod
10	on	on	ADV	_	3 off	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 off	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 using	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 using	nsubj
14	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	telly's off	power					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, it uses no power at all when the screen is off

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 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 uses	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 off	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 screen	det
11	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 off	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 off	cop
13	off	off	ADV	_	4 uses	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	it	no power		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	is	present	the screen					off property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, many devices use electricity on standby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 devices	amod
4	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 standby	case
8	standby	standby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl

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

Option 4

No, the light makes its own power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 power	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the light	light's own power					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Product

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