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title: Why close the curtains on a hot sunny afternoon? — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why close the curtains on a hot sunny afternoon? Test 6 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

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Why close the curtains on a hot sunny afternoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** close · **To what, where:** curtains

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t6:1
# text = Why close the curtains on a hot sunny afternoon?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | the curtains |  |  | afternoon |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient |

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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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They make the air wetter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t6:o1:1
# text = They make the air wetter
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	wetter	wet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the air |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They make the sun go down sooner so evening comes early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t6:o2:1
# text = They make the sun go down sooner so evening comes early
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the sun |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | present | evening |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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They keep the sun's heat out of the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t6:o3:1
# text = They keep the sun's heat out of the room
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | They | the sun's heat |  | the room |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme out room=Location |
| 2 | **heat** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They let more cool air in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating:t6:o4:1
# text = They let more cool air in
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let in** | present | They | cool air |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |

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