Test 5 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

Which uses more electricity: a kettle, or all the LED lights in a room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: use · To what, where: more electricity

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 electricity	amod
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 kettle	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kettle	det
7	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lights	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 lights	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lights	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lights	det
12	LED	led	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lights	compound
13	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kettle	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lights	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present		more electricity				a kettle all LED lights in a room obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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

Neither uses any

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Neither	any					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The LED lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
2	LED	led	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lights	compound
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The kettle

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	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

They use exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	They	the same					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Patient

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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