Test 2 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

Tap water comes to us without using any energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 comes	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 using	mark
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 comes	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 energy	det
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Tap water		us				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
2	use	gerund	Tap water not said here	any energy					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Saving water helps save energy as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 helps	csubj
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saving	obj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 save	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	save	gerund		water	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	help	present	Saving		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	save	infinitive	Saving not said here	energy	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

Option 3

A dripping tap wastes only a cupful a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tap	det
2	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tap	amod
3	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastes	nsubj
4	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 cupful	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cupful	det
7	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastes	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastes	obl:unmarked

#	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	present	a dripping tap	a cupful			year		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupful=Patient

Option 4

Most water on Earth is fresh and drinkable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fresh	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Earth	case
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fresh	cop
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drinkable	cc
8	drinkable	drinkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fresh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Most water on Earth					fresh property	tree rules
2	be		Most water on Earth not said here						tree rules

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