Test 1 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

smoke alarm keeps chirping and it's driving me mad, just yank the battery out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smoke alarm, alarm · What happens: keep, chirp, drive, yank out · To what, where: me, battery

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» 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	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alarm	compound
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 driving	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 driving	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 driving	aux
8	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chirping	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 driving	obj
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 driving	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yank	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 yank	advmod
13	yank	yank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keeps	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 battery	det
15	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yank	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 yank	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	smoke alarm			tree rules
2	chirp	gerund	smoke alarm not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drive	present · progressive	alarm	me	mad property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory
4	yank out	infinitive	smoke alarm not said here	the battery		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent battery=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it only really needs a battery at night when you sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needs	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 needs	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 needs	advmod
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 battery	det
8	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 battery	nmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 sleep	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sleep	nsubj
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 needs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	it	a battery			at night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme
2	sleep	present	you						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, never take it out; tell an adult to change it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 change	mark
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not take out	imperative	you not said here	it		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it's not important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 important	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 important	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 important	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	it					important property	tree rules

Option 4

No, smash it instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 smash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smash	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 smash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	imperative	you not said here	it				instead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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