Exam question 4 · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a bird perched upon a power line.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, perch · To what, where: response, bird, power line

This is exam question 4 of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bird	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 line	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 line	det
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 line	compound
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a bird			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
4	perch	participle		a bird not said here	a power line		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon line=Location

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

Birds are too small to conduct electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 conduct	mark
6	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conduct	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Birds					small property	tree rules
2	conduct	to-infinitive	Birds not said here	electricity					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

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

It touches a single conductor and not the ground

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	2 touches	nsubj
2	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conductor	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conductor	amod
5	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touches	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ground	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ground	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conductor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	It	a single conductor and the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme conductor=Co-Theme

Option 3

Power lines are de-energised for the passage of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lines	compound
2	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 energised	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 energised	aux:pass
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 energised	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 de	punct
6	energised	energise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 passage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 passage	det
9	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 energised	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 birds	case
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 passage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	energise	present · passive		Power lines				for the passage of birds	tree rules
2	pass		birds						nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Feathers render all birds immune to electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 render	nsubj
2	render	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 render	obj
5	immune	immune	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 render	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 electricity	case
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 render	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present	Feathers	all birds	electricity			immune property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to electricity=Recipient

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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