Test 2 · ★ · Electricity at home

Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement					true property	tree rules

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 human body never carries electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
2	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carries	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 carries	advmod
5	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	present	the human body	electricity					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 2

Rubber carries electricity better than copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 carries	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 copper	case
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Rubber	electricity				good property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Water from a tap can carry electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 tap	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Water from a tap	electricity					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 4

Only metal can carry electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 metal	advmod
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	metal	electricity					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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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