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title: Which is the best way to light a room during a power cut? — Laundry machines, the freezer and elec… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the best way to light a room during a power cut? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

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Which is the best way to light a room during a power cut?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, light · **To what, where:** best way, room

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» 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/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t6:1
# text = Which is the best way to light a room during a power cut?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the best way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** | to-infinitive |  | a room |  |  | during a power cut |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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Use a lighter for an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t6:o1:1
# text = Use a lighter for an hour
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lighter	lighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a lighter |  |  | hour |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lighter=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Light candles near the curtains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t6:o2:1
# text = Light candles near the curtains
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Use a torch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t6:o3:1
# text = Use a torch
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a torch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Turn on the gas hob

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t6:o4:1
# text = Turn on the gas hob
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hob	hob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the gas hob |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hob=Trajectory |

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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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