Test 1 · ★★ · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

my mate says it's fine to poke a socket if the switch is off. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, switch · What happens: say, be, poke · To what, where: socket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 poke	mark
8	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fine	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 socket	det
10	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poke	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 off	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 switch	det
13	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 off	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 off	cop
15	off	off	ADV	_	8 poke	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fine	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			fine property	tree rules
3	poke	to-infinitive		a socket		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent socket=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the switch		off property	tree rules

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

Yes, an off switch makes it totally safe, so poke away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 switch	det
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 switch	case
5	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poke	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 poke	advmod
12	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 poke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a switch	it				safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	poke away	infinitive	a switch not said here					away property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, never put anything into a socket at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 socket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 socket	det
8	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	imperative	you not said here	anything		a socket		at all	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Destination

Option 3

Yes, if you use a plastic pen

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pen	det
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pen	amod
8	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

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

Option 4

No, but a metal key is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 key	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 key	compound
6	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fine	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a metal key					fine property	tree rules

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