Test 15 · ★★★ · Thinking it through: the science behind home safety

why do we test the smoke alarm every month

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: test · To what, where: smoke alarm

This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking it through: the science behind home safety» 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	4 test	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 test	nsubj
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 alarm	det
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alarm	compound
7	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 month	det
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present · do-support	we	the smoke alarm			month		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

A dead alarm cannot wake you in a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 alarm	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alarm	amod
3	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wake	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wake	advmod
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wake	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wake	can	a dead alarm	you		a fire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 2

So the fire brigade knows you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 knows	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brigade	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brigade	compound
4	brigade	brigade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the fire brigade	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3

To make the battery stronger every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battery	det
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the battery			time	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset battery=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

So it beeps less at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 beeps	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beeps	nsubj
3	beeps	beep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 beeps	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beep	present	it				night	less property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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