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Test 9 · ★ · Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang

Henry charges his phone under the duvet every night. What is the real risk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Henry, real risk · What happens: charge, be · To what, where: phone, duvet

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 23 «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: Henry charges his phone under the duvet every night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 charges	nsubj
2	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 phone	nmod:poss
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charges	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 duvet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duvet	det
7	duvet	duvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charges	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charges	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 charges	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Henry	Henry's phone		the duvet	night		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.

Sentence 2: What is the real risk?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 risk	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 risk	amod
5	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real risk						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing at all could ever happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 happen	advmod
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could	Nothing				ever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could overheat and start a fire

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 overheat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overheat	aux
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 start	cc
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheat	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	could	It						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	start	infinitive		a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 3

He will be electrocuted in his sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 electrocuted	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 electrocuted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 electrocuted	aux:pass
4	electrocuted	electrocute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nmod:poss
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 electrocuted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	electrocute	future · passive		He		his sleep			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sleep		his = he						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

His phone will stop working forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 phone	nmod:poss
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	His phone						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	His phone not said here					forever property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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