Test 16 · ★ · Electricity at home

phone charger cable's frayed and sparking a bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: fray, spark · To what, where: charger cable, bit

This is test 16 · ★ 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	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charger	compound
2	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cable	compound
3	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frayed	nsubj:pass
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cable	case
5	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sparking	cc
7	sparking	spark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 frayed	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sparking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fray	participle · passive		charger cable					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	spark	gerund		a bit					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bit=Patient

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 at the wall and tell an adult

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unplug	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Unplug	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unplug	imperative	you not said here	it		the wall			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Tape it up and just keep using it, it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tape	tape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tape	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Tape	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tape	conj
7	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 using	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	expl
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tape	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tape up	imperative	you not said here	it		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
3	use	gerund	you not said here	it		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present	you not said here		fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Wrap it round your hand to hold it

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	round	round	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wrap	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wrap	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	imperative	you not said here	it				round your hand	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive	you not said here	hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Keep charging, sparks are normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 normal	punct
4	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 normal	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 normal	cop
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	charge	gerund	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	sparks	normal property	tree rules

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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