Test 8 · ★★ · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

Which is true about birds on power lines?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lines	case
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lines	compound
8	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about birds on power lines; true 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

The birds have special rubber feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
5	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feet	compound
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the birds	special rubber feet					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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

They are safe because they touch only one wire and not the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 touch	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	nsubj
6	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wire	nummod
9	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touch	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ground	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 ground	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					safe property	tree rules
2	touch	present	they	one wire and the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme

Option 3

Power lines carry no electricity at all

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	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 electricity	det
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Power lines	no electricity		all			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 4

Electricity cannot travel through animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 travel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 travel	advmod
4	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not travel	can	Electricity					through animals	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through animal=Trajectory

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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