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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

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Why does a fridge only slow food from going bad, and not stop it forever?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, slow food · **What happens:** do, go, not stop · **To what, where:** fridge, food

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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/40-home-safety-reasoning/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t9:1
# text = Why does a fridge only slow food from going bad, and not stop it forever?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | a fridge and slow food |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fridge=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | slow food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | food |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cold slows bacteria but does not kill them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t9:o1:1
# text = Cold slows bacteria but does not kill them
1	Cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | present | Cold | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bacteria=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **kill** | present · do-support | Cold *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bacteria grow faster in the dark of a fridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t9:o2:1
# text = Bacteria grow faster in the dark of a fridge
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Bacteria |  |  | the dark of a fridge |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fridges warm up at night and cook the food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t9:o3:1
# text = Fridges warm up at night and cook the food
1	Fridges	fridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	warm	warm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm up** | present | Fridges |  |  |  | night |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cook** | infinitive | Fridges *not said here* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Food goes bad only because of its date label

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:40-home-safety-reasoning:t9:o4:1
# text = Food goes bad only because of its date label
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Food |  |  |  |  | because date label; bad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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