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Test 7 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

Your phone gets hot and the back starts to bulge. What could happen if you ignore it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phone, back, you · What happens: get, start, bulge, happen, ignore · To what, where: back

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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

Sentence 1: Your phone gets hot and the back starts to bulge.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 phone	nmod:poss
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 starts	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starts	nsubj
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bulge	mark
10	bulge	bulge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 starts	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Your phone					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	start	present	the back						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bulge	to-infinitive	the back not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What could happen if you ignore it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 ignore	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ignore	nsubj
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ignore	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ignore a condition, not said to happen	present	you	back					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The bulge would go down by itself after a sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bulge	det
2	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 go	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sleep	det
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	would	the bulge				after a sleep	by bulge; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2

The screen would just get brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 screen	det
2	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the screen					bright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The phone would get faster at loading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 loading	case
7	loading	loading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the phone			loading		fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The battery could catch fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 battery	det
2	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	could	the battery	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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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