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title: Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft i… — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows. Which needs less fuel? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

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Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows. Which needs less fuel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** heat, have, need · **To what, where:** Two identical houses, fluffy loft insulation, less fuel

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics 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/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:1
# text = Two identical houses are heated in winter, but one has fluffy loft insulation and double windows.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	insulation	insulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | present · passive |  | Two identical houses |  |  | winter |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | one | fluffy loft insulation and double windows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insulation=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which needs less fuel?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:2
# text = Which needs less fuel?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present |  | less fuel |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The house without insulation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:o1:1
# text = The house without insulation
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	insulation	insulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Both need exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:o2:1
# text = Both need exactly the same
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Both |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Neither needs any fuel at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:o3:1
# text = Neither needs any fuel at all
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Neither | any fuel |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuel=Theme |

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

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The insulated house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t9:o4:1
# text = The insulated house
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	insulated	insulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insulate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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