Test 3 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

Why are UK bathroom light switches often pull-cords?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: light switches · What happens: be, pull · To what, where: light switches, cords

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 switches	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 switches	cop
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 light	compound
4	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	compound
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switches	compound
6	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pull	nsubj
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 pull	advmod
8	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cords	punct
10	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pull	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		light switches					tree rules
2	pull	present	light switches	cords				often property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

So wet hands never touch an ordinary switch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hands	amod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touch	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 switch	det
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switch	amod
8	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	wet hands	a ordinary switch					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme switch=Co-Theme

Option 2

So children cannot reach them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reach	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 reach	advmod
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	children	them = they					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Because they are cheaper to make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 cheaper	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheaper	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					cheap property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because pull-cords give more light than ordinary switches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
2	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cords	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pull	punct
4	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 switches	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 switches	amod
10	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	pull cords	more light				than ordinary switches	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

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