Test 8 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms
ugh my hands are wet, can I just flick the light on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hands, I · What happens: be, flick on · To what, where: light
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 5 wet | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wet | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wet | cop |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flick | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 flick | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 flick | nsubj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 flick | advmod |
| 10 | flick | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wet | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flick | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 flick | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my hands | wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flick on | can | I | the light | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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 · ✓ the right answer
No, dry your hands first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 dry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | dry | dry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dry | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 dry | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | imperative | you not said here | your hands | first property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hand=Result |
Option 2
No, but you can use your elbow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 use | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 use | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | aux |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | can | you | your elbow | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elbow=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, if you use one finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 use | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 use | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 finger | nummod |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | you | one finger | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
Option 4
Yes, light switches are waterproof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 waterproof | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 switches | compound |
| 4 | switches | switch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waterproof | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waterproof | cop |
| 6 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | light switches | waterproof property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t8/