Test 4 · ★ · Electricity at home

What would most likely happen if someone kept using a lamp with a badly frayed cord?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: happen, keep, use, fray · To what, where: lamp

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 kept	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lamp	det
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 using	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 cord	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cord	det
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 frayed	advmod
15	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cord	amod
16	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 using	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	someone			tree rules
3	use	gerund	someone not said here	a lamp	with a frayed cord	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
4	fray	participle			badly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Nothing, because lamps use little electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 use	mark
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 electricity	amod
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	lamps	little electricity					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient

Option 2

The cord would slowly heal by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cord	det
2	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heal	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heal	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 heal	advmod
5	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 heal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	would	the cord					by cord; slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The lamp would simply give brighter light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the lamp	brighter light				simply property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They could get a shock or start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shock	det
5	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 start	cc
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	They	a shock					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus
2	start	infinitive	They not said here	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

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