Test 6 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

What would happen if a frayed wire let electricity leak through someone touching it, in a house with an RCD?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: frayed wire, electricity · What happens: happen, fray, let, leak, touch · To what, where: electricity, someone, house

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 let	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wire	det
6	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wire	amod
7	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
10	leak	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 someone	case
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 leak	obl
13	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 someone	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 touching	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touching	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 RCD	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 RCD	det
21	RCD	rcd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fray	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	let a condition, not said to happen	present	a frayed wire	electricity		tree rules
4	leak	infinitive	electricity not said here		someone	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through someone=Location
5	touch	gerund		electricity	a house with a RCD	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The RCD would switch the power off in a split second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 RCD	det
2	RCD	rcd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 switch	aux
4	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 switch	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 second	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 second	det
10	split	split	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 second	amod
11	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	would	the RCD	the power			second		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 3

The meter would stop counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 meter	det
2	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the meter						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	count	gerund	the meter not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The RCD would make the current stronger to push it through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 RCD	det
2	RCD	rcd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 current	det
6	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 push	mark
9	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 push	obj
11	through	through	ADV	_	9 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the RCD	the current				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset current=Product
2	push	to-infinitive	the RCD not said here	current				through property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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