Test 9 · ★ · Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing

Why does a hairdryer have a cut-out switch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hairdryer · What happens: have · To what, where: out switch

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 12 «Washing, drying, vacuuming and ironing» of the technology 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	5 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hairdryer	det
4	hairdryer	hairdryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 switch	det
7	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 out	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
9	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 switch	compound
10	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	a hairdryer	a out switch					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=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

To make it louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		it				loud property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

To change the colour of the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive		the colour of the air					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3

To save the battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battery	det
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		the battery					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To switch off if it gets too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 switch	mark
2	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 switch	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gets	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 switch	advcl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	to-infinitive							vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	get a condition, not said to happen	present	it					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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