Test 2 · ★ · Electricity and safety

mate says its fine in a storm in the car cos of the rubber tyres. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fine	nmod:poss
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 true	csubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cos	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cos	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cos	compound
11	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 storm	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tyres	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tyres	det
14	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tyres	compound
15	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cos	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

No, cars attract lightning straight inside to the people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 attract	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attract	nsubj
4	attract	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attract	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 inside	advmod
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 attract	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attract	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	cars	lightning				to the people result; inside property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent lightning=Patient to people=Result

Option 2

No, a car is the worst place in a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 storm	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a car	the worst place		a storm			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Safe, yes, but because of the metal body, not the tyres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Safe	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Safe	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 body	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 body	cc
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 body	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 body	compound
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Safe	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tyres	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tyres	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tyres	det
14	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 body	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, rubber tyres stop any lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tyres	compound
4	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 lightning	det
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	rubber tyres	any lightning					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality lightning=Eventuality

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