Test 6 · ★ · Electricity at home

Why is it a bad idea to yank a phone charger out by its cord?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, yank out · To what, where: bad idea, phone charger

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 yank	mark
8	yank	yank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 charger	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charger	compound
11	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yank	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	8 yank	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 cord	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cord	nmod:poss
15	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yank	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	yank out	to-infinitive		a phone charger				by charger's cord	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent charger=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

It makes the phone charge more slowly next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 charge	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charge	compound
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the phone charge			time	slowly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material charge=Product

Option 2

It wastes electricity from the socket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wastes	nsubj
2	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wastes	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 socket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 socket	det
6	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wastes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	present	It	electricity		the socket			vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument electricity=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can damage the wires and break the cover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 damage	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 damage	aux
3	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wires	det
5	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 damage	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 break	cc
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 damage	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cover	det
9	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	can	It	the wires					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wire=Patient
2	break	infinitive		the cover					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cover=Patient

Option 4

It turns the plug into a magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plug	det
4	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 magnet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magnet	det
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	the plug		a magnet			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent plug=Theme into magnet=Trajectory

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