Test 10 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

Why does a doorbell camera ring the phone even before the button is pressed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doorbell camera · What happens: ring, press · To what, where: phone, button

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ring	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camera	det
4	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 camera	compound
5	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nsubj
6	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 pressed	advmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 pressed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 button	det
12	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pressed	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pressed	aux:pass
14	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ring	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present · do-support	a doorbell camera	the phone					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme
2	press	present · passive		the button					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is connected to the street lights outside the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 connected	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 connected	aux:pass
3	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lights	compound
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 connected	obl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lights	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	connect	present · passive		It				to the street lights outside the house	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to light=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It sensed someone moving near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sensed	nsubj
2	sensed	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 sensed	obj
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 someone	acl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	past	It	someone					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	move	gerund				the door			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near door=Trajectory

Option 3

It guesses when visitors come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guesses	nsubj
2	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guesses	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	It						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	visitors						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It hears footsteps from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hears	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 hears	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	footsteps				away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus

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