Test 13 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

my cousin reckons a dripping tap only wastes a few drops. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, dripping tap · What happens: reckon, drip, waste · To what, where: few drops

This is test 13 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tap	det
5	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tap	amod
6	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wastes	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 wastes	advmod
8	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 drops	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 drops	amod
11	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wastes	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present	my cousin		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drip	gerund			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	waste	present	a dripping tap	a few drops	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a dripping tap can waste thousands of litres in a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 waste	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tap	det
4	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tap	amod
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waste	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 waste	aux
7	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waste	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 litres	case
10	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thousands	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	waste	can	a dripping tap	thousands of litres			year		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient

Option 2

No, a dripping tap saves water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 saves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saves	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tap	det
4	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tap	amod
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	nsubj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	save	present	a dripping tap	water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it wastes less than a cup a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wastes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wastes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wastes	nsubj
4	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wastes	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 less	fixed
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastes	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present	it	less			year		tree rules

Option 4

Yes, the drops are too small to matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drops	det
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 small	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 matter	mark
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the drops					small property	tree rules
2	matter	to-infinitive	the drops not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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