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title: Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling. What most likely caused… — Saving energy, pets at home and the ba… · tree and pragmatics
description: Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling. What most likely caused them? Test 4 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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 4 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

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Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling. What most likely caused them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Black spots · **What happens:** appear, cause · **To what, where:** bathroom ceiling, spots

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This is test 4 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:1
# text = Black spots appear on the bathroom ceiling.
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | Black spots |  |  | the bathroom ceiling |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ceiling=Location |

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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:* What most likely caused them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:2
# text = What most likely caused them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past |  | spots *= spot* |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer what=Theme they=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Too much toilet paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:o1:1
# text = Too much toilet paper
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Too much bright sunlight coming into the bathroom every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:o2:1
# text = Too much bright sunlight coming into the bathroom every day
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | much bright sunlight *not said here* |  |  | the bathroom | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bathroom=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Damp from steam that was not let out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:o3:1
# text = Damp from steam that was not let out
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | let *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Water that was too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t4:o4:1
# text = Water that was too cold
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Water |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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