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# Test 5 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

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Uncle Pete unplugs his phone at 80% and leaves it in a hot car all afternoon. Which habit is worse for the battery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Uncle, habit · **What happens:** unplug, leave, be · **To what, where:** phone, hot car

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Uncle Pete unplugs his phone at 80% and leaves it in a hot car all afternoon.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:1
# text = Uncle Pete unplugs his phone at 80% and leaves it in a hot car all afternoon.
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Pete	Pete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	unplugs	unplug	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unplug** | present | Uncle | Uncle's phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Uncle *not said here* | phone |  | a hot car | afternoon |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in car=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:* Which habit is worse for the battery?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:2
# text = Which habit is worse for the battery?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which habit |  |  |  |  | for the battery; bad *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Unplugging it when it hits 80%

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:o1:1
# text = Unplugging it when it hits 80%
1	Unplugging	unplug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unplug** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Charging it at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:o2:1
# text = Charging it at night
1	Charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | gerund |  | it |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Turning it off sometimes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:o3:1
# text = Turning it off sometimes
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Leaving it in the hot car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests:t5:o4:1
# text = Leaving it in the hot car
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | it |  | the hot car |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in car=Location |

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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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