Test 4 · ★★ · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

What would happen if a frayed cable's live wire touched you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: live wire · What happens: happen, fray, touch · To what, where: you

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	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	_	11 touched	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cable	det
6	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cable	amod
7	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wire	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 cable	case
9	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wire	amod
10	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 touched	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	a frayed cable's live wire	you	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=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

You would just feel a little tickle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tickle	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tickle	amod
7	tickle	tickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	You	a little tickle					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tickle=Theme

Option 2

It would charge your body like a battery

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 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 charge	aux
3	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 body	nmod:poss
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 battery	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 battery	det
8	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	would	It	your body				like a battery	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location body=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, cables are always off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cables	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 off	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 off	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cables					always, off property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Electricity could pass through you and hurt or kill you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pass	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurt	cc
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 kill	cc
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	could	Electricity		through you	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through you=Location
2	hurt	infinitive	Electricity not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	kill	infinitive	Electricity not said here	you		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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