Test 9 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

Why does a family keep a battery radio in their emergency kit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: keep · To what, where: battery radio, emergency kit

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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	5 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 radio	det
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 radio	compound
8	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 kit	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kit	nmod:poss
11	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kit	compound
12	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	a family	a battery radio		their emergency kit			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent radio=Theme in kit=Location

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

A radio is a good toy for a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 radio	det
2	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 toy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toy	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toy	amod
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 storm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a radio	a good toy				for a storm	tree rules

Option 2

The radio charges the torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 radio	det
2	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charges	nsubj
3	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charges	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	the radio	the torch					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location torch=Theme

Option 3

Radios send out a signal that attracts rescuers to your house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radios	radio	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	nsubj
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 send	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 signal	det
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 send	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 attracts	nsubj
7	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 signal	acl:relcl
8	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attracts	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attracts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	present	Radios	a signal					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
2	attract	present	a signal	rescuers				to your house result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent rescuer=Patient to house=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Power and phones may fail, but the radio still gives warnings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fail	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 phones	cc
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Power	conj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	aux
5	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 gives	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 radio	det
9	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 gives	advmod
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	parataxis
12	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	may	Power and phones						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the radio	warnings			still		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=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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