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title: You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad". Why? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Paying for a home and the bills

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You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad". Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, Dad · **What happens:** leave, say · **To what, where:** kettle half, good lad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:1
# text = You leave the kettle half full for your one cup of tea, and Dad says "good lad".
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obj	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | You | the kettle half |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | good lad |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lad=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A full kettle can break the smart meter and the fuse box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:o1:1
# text = A full kettle can break the smart meter and the fuse box
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meter	meter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fuse	fuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | can | a full kettle | the smart meter and the fuse box |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meter=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The landlord only allows half a kettle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:o2:1
# text = The landlord only allows half a kettle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present | the landlord | half kettle |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Half-full kettles boil hotter water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:o3:1
# text = Half-full kettles boil hotter water
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kettles	kettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	boil	boil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | present | full kettles | hotter water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument water=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Boiling only the water you need uses less energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills:t11:o4:1
# text = Boiling only the water you need uses less energy
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  | the water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | you | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present | Boiling | less energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |

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