Test 4 · Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows

What would happen if a house had no fuses or trip switches at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: house · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: fuses, all

This is test 4 of lesson 27 «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fuses	det
9	fuses	fuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 switches	cc
11	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 switches	compound
12	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fuses	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 had	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a house	no fuses or trip switches		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuse=Patient

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

Overloaded wires could overheat and start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overloaded	overload	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wires	amod
2	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 overheat	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 overheat	aux
4	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 start	cc
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 overheat	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	overload	participle			vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	overheat	could	Overloaded wires		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	start	infinitive	Overloaded wires not said here	a fire	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 2

The house would not be able to get any electricity at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 able	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 able	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 electricity	det
10	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	the house					able property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the house not said here	any electricity		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

Nothing, fuses are only there as decoration anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fuses	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	fuses	fuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 decoration	case
8	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing fuses					as decoration; anyway, there property	tree rules

Option 4

The lights would get brighter and brighter every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brighter	cc
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 brighter	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the lights				day	bright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows/t4/