Test 4 · ★ · Electricity and safety
In a cartoon, a character dries her hair in the bath and nothing happens. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, nothing · What happens: dry, happen, be · To what, where: hair, cartoon
This is test 4 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, a character dries her hair in the bath and nothing happens.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | nsubj |
| 7 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bath | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bath | det |
| 12 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dries | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happens | cc |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 happens | nsubj |
| 15 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dries | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | present | a character | character's hair | a cartoon | in the bath | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result | ||
| 2 | happen | present | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, because the bath water blocks electricity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blocks | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 blocks | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blocks | nsubj |
| 7 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 8 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blocks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | present | the bath water | electricity | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer electricity=Theme |
Option 2
The bath water would just get pleasantly warm, that's all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 all | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | the bath water | all | pleasantly, warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Water carries electricity, so it could kill her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kill | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 kill | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carries | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Water | electricity | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | could | Water | her = she | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
Hair dryers only ever blow out cold air near water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dryers | compound |
| 2 | dryers | dryer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blow | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 blow | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 blow | advmod |
| 5 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 blow | compound:prt |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 air | amod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow out | infinitive | Hair dryers | cold air | water | ever | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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