Exam question 1 · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

Identify the principal reason for which plugs and switches must not be touched with wet hands.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, not touch · To what, where: principal reason, plugs

This is exam question 1 of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 touched	obl
7	plugs	plug	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	nsubj:pass
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 switches	cc
9	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plugs	conj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 touched	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 touched	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 touched	aux:pass
13	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not touch	must · passive		plugs and switches				for the principal reason; with wet hands	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Water causes the plug to fall from the socket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plug	det
4	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 socket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 socket	det
9	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Water	the plug					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition plug=Patient
2	fall	to-infinitive	Water not said here			the socket			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from socket=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Water conducts electricity into the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	nsubj
2	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conducts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	Water	electricity		the body			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme into body=Destination

Option 3

Wet hands cause the bulb to flicker only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hands	amod
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bulb	det
5	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flicker	mark
7	flicker	flicker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 flicker	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Wet hands	the bulb					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bulb=Patient
2	flicker	to-infinitive	Wet hands not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Water causes the switch to rust at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 switch	det
4	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rust	mark
6	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 rust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Water	the switch					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition switch=Patient
2	rust	to-infinitive	Water not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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