Exam question 2 · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

Identify the principal reason for which an appliance is unplugged before anyone touches its interior.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, anyone · What happens: identify, unplug, touch · To what, where: principal reason, appliance, interior

This is exam question 2 of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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	10 unplugged	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 appliance	det
8	appliance	appliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unplugged	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unplugged	aux:pass
10	unplugged	unplug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 touches	mark
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 touches	nsubj
13	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unplugged	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 interior	nmod:poss
15	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touches	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	unplug	present · passive		a appliance	for the principal reason	tree rules
3	touch	present	anyone	appliance's interior		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme interior=Co-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 plug may otherwise overheat and melt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plug	det
2	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overheat	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 overheat	aux
4	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	5 overheat	advmod
5	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 melt	cc
7	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overheat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	may	the plug					otherwise property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	melt	infinitive	the plug not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It makes the appliance easier to lift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 appliance	det
4	appliance	appliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lift	mark
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the appliance				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material appliance=Product
2	lift	to-infinitive	the appliance not said here						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A switch may fail and leave it live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 switch	det
2	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fail	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	aux
4	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fail	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fail	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fail	may	a switch		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	leave	infinitive	a switch not said here	switch	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not live	infinitive	a switch not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Unplugging prevents the appliance from cooling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unplugging	unplug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 prevents	nsubj
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 appliance	det
4	appliance	appliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 cooling	case
6	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unplug	gerund							tree rules
2	prevent	present		the appliance		cooling			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer appliance=Beneficiary from cooling=Eventuality

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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