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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps

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«boiling hot, leave the fridge open to cool the kitchen» What would really happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** boil, leave, cool, happen · **To what, where:** fridge, kitchen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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/technology/10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t3:1
# text = «boiling hot, leave the fridge open to cool the kitchen» What would really happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the fridge |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cool** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The fridge would fill the kitchen with snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t3:o1:1
# text = The fridge would fill the kitchen with snow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | would | the fridge | the kitchen |  |  |  | with snow | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kitchen=Patient with snow=Instrument |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The kitchen would get warmer, because the fridge dumps its heat out the back while working harder

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t3:o2:1
# text = The kitchen would get warmer, because the fridge dumps its heat out the back while working harder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dumps	dump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dump out** | present | the fridge | fridge's heat |  |  |  | the back *obl:unmarked* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | the fridge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **heat** |  | fridge |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The kitchen would cool like an air conditioner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t3:o3:1
# text = The kitchen would cool like an air conditioner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	conditioner	conditioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | would | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | like a air conditioner | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps:t3:o4:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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