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title: dad cranked the thermostat to 30 so it heats faster. does it? — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics
description: dad cranked the thermostat to 30 so it heats faster. does it? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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 right.
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Heating, water pipes and drains

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dad cranked the thermostat to 30 so it heats faster. does it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad, thermostat · **What happens:** crank, heat, do · **To what, where:** thermostat

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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/13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains:t1:1
# text = dad cranked the thermostat to 30 so it heats faster. does it?
1	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cranked	crank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crank** | past | dad | the thermostat |  |  |  | to 30 | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | present | thermostat |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | present | thermostat *not said here* | thermostat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it heats at the same speed, just to a hotter end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains:t1:o1:1
# text = No, it heats at the same speed, just to a hotter end
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | present | it |  |  | the same speed | to a hotter end |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to end=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, twice as fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, twice as fast
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it makes the house colder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains:t1:o3:1
# text = No, it makes the house colder
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | it | the house |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material house=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, the boiler burns double gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:13-heating-water-pipes-and-drains:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, the boiler burns double gas
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | the boiler | double gas |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gas=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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