Test 9 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms
Leo yanks the plug out by its cable. What is the rule?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, plug, rule · What happens: yank out, cable, be · To what, where: plug
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Leo yanks the plug out by its cable.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 yanks | nsubj |
| 2 | yanks | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plug | det |
| 4 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yanks | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 yanks | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 cable | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cable | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yanks | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yanks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank out | present | Leo | the plug | by plug's cable | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent plug=Patient | |||
| 2 | cable | plug | nom cable «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 is the rule?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the rule | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It's fine if you pull fast
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 fine | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 pull | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pull | nsubj |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | advcl |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pull | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pull a condition, not said to happen | present | you | fast property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Hold the plug, not the cable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plug | det |
| 3 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cable | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cable | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cable | det |
| 7 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | the plug | the cable obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme |
Option 3
Pull with two hands on the cable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hands | nummod |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pull | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cable | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cable | det |
| 7 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | with two hands; on the cable | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on cable=Theme |
Option 4
Wiggle the cable side to side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiggle | wiggle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | compound |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiggle | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 side | mark |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiggle | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wiggle | imperative | you not said here | the cable side | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
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