Test 13 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings
toaster's switched off at the button, can i poke the bread out
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toaster · What happens: switch off, poke out · To what, where: toaster, button, bread
This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» 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 | toaster | toaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poke | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 toaster | case |
| 3 | switched | switch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 toaster | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 switched | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 button | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 button | det |
| 7 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 switched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 toaster | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 poke | aux |
| 10 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 poke | nsubj |
| 11 | poke | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bread | det |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poke | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 poke | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch off | participle | toaster not said here | the button | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | poke out | can | toaster | the bread | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bread=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, the switch makes it safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 switch | det |
| 4 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the switch | it | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Option 2
Yes, if the light is off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 off | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 off | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the light | off property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Unplug it first, a switch can fail
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 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Unplug | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fail | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 switch | det |
| 6 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fail | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fail | aux |
| 8 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Unplug | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | imperative | you not said here | it | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fail | can | a switch | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, with a metal knife quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 knife | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knife | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 knife | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knife | compound |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 knife | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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