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title: Which day dries washing on the line fastest, most often? — Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing · tree and pragmatics
description: Which day dries washing on the line fastest, most often? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology 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 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing

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Which day dries washing on the line fastest, most often?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** day · **What happens:** dry, wash · **To what, where:** fastest, line

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» 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/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t4:1
# text = Which day dries washing on the line fastest, most often?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | present | which day |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund | which day *not said here* | fastest |  | the line |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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A still, foggy day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t4:o1:1
# text = A still, foggy day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	foggy	foggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A windy day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t4:o2:1
# text = A windy day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rainy day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t4:o3:1
# text = A rainy day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A still, damp day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing:t4:o4:1
# text = A still, damp day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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