Test 11 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms
Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. What counts them?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: say, pay, count · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pays | nsubj |
| 4 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 electricity | case |
| 6 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 8 | kilowatt | kilowatt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hours | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kilowatt | punct |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pays | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | present | Mum | hour | for electricity | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for electricity=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 counts them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 counts | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 counts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The fuse box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | fuse | fuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Wi-Fi router
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 router | det |
| 2 | Wi | Wi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fi | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wi | punct |
| 4 | Fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 router | compound |
| 5 | router | router | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The smoke alarm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 alarm | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alarm | compound |
| 3 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The electricity meter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meter | det |
| 2 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meter | compound |
| 3 | meter | meter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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