Test 15 · ★ · Electricity at home

there's a power line lying on the road after the storm

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: power line · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: road

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 32 «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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 line	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 storm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a power line			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	gerund	a power line not said here			the road	after the storm		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location

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

Move it out of the way with a dry branch from a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Move	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 branch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 branch	det
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branch	amod
10	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	it		the way		with a dry branch; from a tree	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out way=Source from tree=Trajectory

Option 2

Step over it carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Step	nmod
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	1 Step	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Poke it to see if it is live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	advcl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 live	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 live	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 live	cop
8	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	it		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it		live property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stay far away and tell an adult to call for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 call	mark
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 help	case
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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