Test 6 · Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows

Why must nobody ever poke a knife into a toaster, even to get stuck toast out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: poke, get out · To what, where: knife, stuck toast

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 poke	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poke	aux
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 poke	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 poke	advmod
5	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poke	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 toaster	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toaster	det
10	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 poke	parataxis
15	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 toast	amod
16	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	14 get	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 poke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	must	nobody	a knife			ever	into a toaster	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Instrument into toaster=Patient
2	get out	to-infinitive		stuck toast					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The knife will make the toast taste of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 taste	det
6	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taste	compound
7	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 metal	case
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	the knife	the toast taste of metal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material taste=Product
2	taste			metal					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The bread will catch fire from the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	future	the bread	fire		the knife			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from knife=Source

Option 3

The knife will cool the hot wires down and make them break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	aux
4	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wires	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wires	amod
7	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cool	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 cool	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cool	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cool	future	the knife	the hot wires	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wire=Patient
2	make	infinitive	the knife not said here	wires = wire		tree rules
3	break	infinitive	wires = wire not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The wires inside are live and can give a deadly shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wires	det
2	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 wires	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	cop
5	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 live	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shock	det
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shock	amod
11	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wires					live property	tree rules
2	give	can	the wires not said here	a deadly shock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme

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