Test 7 · Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows
Lily wants to charge her phone under her pillow overnight. Good idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: want, charge · To what, where: phone, pillow
This is test 7 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
Sentence 1: Lily wants to charge her phone under her pillow overnight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 charge | mark |
| 4 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 phone | nmod:poss |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charge | obj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 pillow | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charge | obl |
| 10 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 4 charge | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Lily | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | charge not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lily not said here | Lily's phone | Lily's pillow | overnight property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location phone=Theme |
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: Good idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 idea | amod |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 idea | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, phones charge faster in the dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 charge | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 charge | nsubj |
| 4 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 charge | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dark | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charge | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | present | phones | the dark | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, the heat cannot escape and it could overheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 escape | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heat | det |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escape | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 escape | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 escape | advmod |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 overheat | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overheat | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 overheat | aux |
| 11 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 escape | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape | can | the heat | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | overheat | could | heat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, the pillow keeps the battery warm and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 keeps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pillow | det |
| 4 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battery | det |
| 7 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happy | cc |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warm | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the pillow | the battery | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme |
Option 4
No, the pillow will drain the battery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 drain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pillow | det |
| 4 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drain | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 drain | aux |
| 6 | drain | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battery | det |
| 8 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drain | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain | future | the pillow | the battery | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent battery=Source |
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