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title: Why is it a bad idea to dry socks on top of a portable heater? — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it a bad idea to dry socks on top of a portable heater? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 5 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

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Why is it a bad idea to dry socks on top of a portable heater?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, dry · **To what, where:** bad idea, socks, top

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t5:1
# text = Why is it a bad idea to dry socks on top of a portable heater?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	portable	portable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heater	heater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a bad idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  | socks |  | top of a portable heater |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sock=Result |

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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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The heater will get too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t5:o1:1
# text = The heater will get too cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heater	heater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | future | the heater |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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Covering the heater can make it catch fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t5:o2:1
# text = Covering the heater can make it catch fire
1	Covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heater	heater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund |  | the heater |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heater=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | can | Covering | heater |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | infinitive | heater *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The socks will smell of smoke only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t5:o3:1
# text = The socks will smell of smoke only
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | future | the socks |  |  |  |  | of smoke | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of smoke=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The socks will shrink too much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t5:o4:1
# text = The socks will shrink too much
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | future | the socks | much |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=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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