Test 6 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

Which is true about a crackling jumper and a bolt of lightning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lightning · What happens: be, bolt

This is test 6 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 jumper	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jumper	det
6	crackling	crackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumper	compound
7	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bolt	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bolt	det
10	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jumper	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 lightning	case
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bolt	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a crackling jumper and a bolt of lightning; true property	tree rules
2	bolt		lightning						nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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

They have nothing at all in common

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 have	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 common	case
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	nothing		all		in common	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A jumper's crackle is only a sound from the wool, with no spark at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jumper	det
2	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crackle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 jumper	case
4	crackle	crackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sound	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 sound	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 wool	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wool	det
11	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spark	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 spark	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 spark	det
15	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 spark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a jumper's crackle	a sound and no spark at all		the wool			tree rules
2	crackle		a jumper						nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Lightning is made of wool fibres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fibres	case
5	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fibres	compound
6	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Lightning				of wool fibres	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are sparks from built-up charge, one tiny and one huge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sparks	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sparks	cop
3	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tiny	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 charge	case
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 charge	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 built	compound:prt
8	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sparks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 tiny	nummod
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 huge	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 huge	nummod
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		both sparks		built charge			tree rules
2	build up	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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