Test 8 · ★ · Electricity and safety

What would happen if a metal kettle had a fault but no earth wire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: metal kettle · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: fault

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kettle	det
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kettle	compound
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fault	det
10	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 wire	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 wire	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wire	compound
14	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fault	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a metal kettle	a fault but no earth wire					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient

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

Nothing at all, because earth wires do nothing anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wires	compound
7	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 do	obj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	earth wires	nothing				anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Touching it could send the electricity through you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 send	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Touching	obj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 electricity	det
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	send	could	Touching	the electricity				through you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 3

The kettle would boil water faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boil	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 boil	aux
4	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boil	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 boil	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	would	the kettle	water				fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument water=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The water would turn into ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

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