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Test 5 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home

A country has a long dry summer. Why is wasting water a bigger problem then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: have, waste · To what, where: water

This is test 5 · ★ 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 country has a long dry summer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 summer	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summer	amod
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summer	amod
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a country				summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Why is wasting water a bigger problem then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wasting	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wasting	aux
3	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wasting	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 problem	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 problem	amod
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wasting	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wasting	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present · progressive		water			then		tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Plants stop needing water in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Plants	needing water			summer		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality water=Eventuality
2	need	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

The sea becomes fresh in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 becomes	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the sea				summer	fresh property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Pipes freeze and burst in the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 freeze	nsubj
2	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 burst	cc
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 freeze	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 heat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heat	det
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Pipes						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	burst	present	Pipes not said here			the heat			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Less fresh water is left in rivers and storage lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 fresh	advmod
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lakes	cc
9	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lakes	compound
10	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		fresh water		rivers and storage lakes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in river=Location

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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