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title: Why does leaving the fridge door open waste electricity? — Kitchen floors, food safety and the mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does leaving the fridge door open waste electricity? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» of the everyday 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 7 · ★ · Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave

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Why does leaving the fridge door open waste electricity?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** fridge door

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 106 «Kitchen floors, food safety and the microwave» of the everyday 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/everyday/106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t7:1
# text = Why does leaving the fridge door open waste electricity?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · do-support |  | the fridge door |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent door=Theme electricity=Attribute |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The open door makes the motor turn backwards and use more power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t7:o1:1
# text = The open door makes the motor turn backwards and use more power
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the open door | the motor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | the motor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present | the open door *not said here* | more power |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The fridge must work harder to cool the warm air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t7:o2:1
# text = The fridge must work harder to cool the warm air
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | must | the fridge |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cool** | to-infinitive | the fridge *not said here* | the warm air |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cold air makes the fridge switch off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t7:o3:1
# text = Cold air makes the fridge switch off
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cold air | the fridge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **switch off** | infinitive | the fridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fridge light uses up all the power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave:t7:o4:1
# text = The fridge light uses up all the power
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use up** | present | the fridge light | all power |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

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**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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