Test 11 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks
Why do dryer sheets help stop static cling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dryer sheets · What happens: help, stop · To what, where: static cling
This is test 11 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics 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 | 2 do | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 3 | dryer | dryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sheets | compound |
| 4 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 7 | static | static | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cling | amod |
| 8 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | dryer sheets | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | dryer sheets not said here | static cling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cling=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
They stop charge building up on the clothes
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 | 2 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stop | xcomp |
| 4 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 building | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 clothes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clothes | det |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 building | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | They | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | charge | present | They not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | build up | gerund | They not said here | the clothes | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
They make the dryer hotter
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 | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dryer | det |
| 4 | dryer | dryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | They | the dryer | hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dryer=Product |
Option 3
They glue the clothes apart
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 | 2 glue | nsubj |
| 2 | glue | glue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clothes | det |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 glue | obj |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 glue | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glue | present | They | the clothes | apart property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
Option 4
They make the clothes heavier so they cannot cling
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 | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clothes | det |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 cling | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cling | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cling | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cling | advmod |
| 10 | cling | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | They | the clothes | heavy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product | |||
| 2 | not cling | can | clothes | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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