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Test 11 · ★ · Electricity and safety

Mia's kite string touched a power line, and it's raining. Why is that worse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kite string, it · What happens: touch, rain, be · To what, where: power line

This is test 11 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Mia's kite string touched a power line, and it's raining.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 string	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 string	compound
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 line	det
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 line	compound
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 raining	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 raining	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 raining	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 raining	aux
13	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 touched	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Mia's kite string	a power line					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme
2	rain	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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: Why is that worse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 worse	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worse	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 worse	mark
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						bad property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Rain makes the power line switch off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 line	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 switch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rain	the power line					tree rules
2	switch off	present	the power line not said here						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Rain turns the string into rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 string	det
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 rubber	case
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Rain	the string		rubber			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent string=Theme into rubber=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A wet string carries electricity even more easily to the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	nsubj
4	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 easily	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 carries	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a wet string	electricity	the person			easily property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme to person=Destination

Option 4

A wet kite floats away from the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kite	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kite	amod
3	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floats	nsubj
4	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 floats	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	present	a wet kite			the line		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from line=Trajectory

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