Test 10 · ★ · Electricity and safety

Why might a large electric eel be dangerous to a person wading in a river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: large electric eel, person · What happens: be, wade · To what, where: river

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 28 «Electricity and safety» 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	8 dangerous	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eel	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eel	amod
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eel	amod
6	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dangerous	cop
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	obl
12	wading	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 person	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wading	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	a large electric eel					to a person; dangerous property	tree rules
2	wade	gerund	a person not said here			a river			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory

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

It makes the water boil around you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boil	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boil	compound
5	boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the water boil				around you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material boil=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its shock can be strong enough to knock a person over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shock	nmod:poss
2	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 strong	cop
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 knock	mark
8	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 strong	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knock	obj
11	over	over	ADV	_	8 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	Its shock		enough, strong property	tree rules
2	knock over	to-infinitive	Its shock not said here	a person		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient
3	shock		Its = it			nom shock «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It bites with electric teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bites	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	It					with electric teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument

Option 4

It sucks the electricity right out of the person's body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sucks	nsubj
2	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 electricity	det
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sucks	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	2 sucks	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	11 body	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 body	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 body	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 person	case
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sucks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	present	It	the electricity		the person's body		right property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme out body=Source

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