Exam question 4 · Babies, button batteries and magnets

Whereas a tablet battery is observed to swell or become very hot, determine the action to be taken.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: observe, swell, become, determine, take · To what, where: tablet battery, action

This is exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	6 observed	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battery	det
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battery	compound
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observed	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 observed	aux:pass
6	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 determine	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 swell	mark
8	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 observed	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 become	cc
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swell	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 hot	advmod
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 observed	punct
14	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 action	det
16	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 determine	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 taken	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	aux:pass
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 action	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	observe	present · passive		a tablet battery		tree rules
2	swell	to-infinitive				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	become	infinitive			hot property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	determine	imperative	you not said here	the action		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	the action not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»

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 · ✓ the right answer

Unplug it and place it on a hard surface away from fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unplug	unplug	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Unplug	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 place	cc
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unplug	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Unplug	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 surface	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 surface	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 surface	amod
9	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unplug	obl
10	away	away	ADV	_	1 Unplug	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 fuel	case
12	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unplug	imperative	you not said here	it		a hard surface		away property	tree rules

Option 2

Wrap it in a blanket to contain the excess heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wrap	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 blanket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blanket	det
5	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrap	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 contain	mark
7	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wrap	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heat	det
9	excess	excess	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heat	amod
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	imperative	you not said here	it		a blanket			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in blanket=Destination
2	contain	to-infinitive	you not said here	the excess heat					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme

Option 3

Press firmly on the swelling to flatten the casing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swelling	nsubj
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	5 swelling	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 swelling	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swelling	det
5	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flatten	mark
7	flatten	flatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swelling	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 casing	det
9	casing	casing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flatten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	to-infinitive		the casing					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casing=Patient

Option 4

Continue charging it so that the swelling subsides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Continue	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 charging	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 subsides	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swelling	det
7	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 subsides	nsubj
8	subsides	subside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 charging	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	continue	imperative	you not said here		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	charge	gerund	you not said here	it	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	subside	present	the swelling		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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