Test 9 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging
An e-bike battery in the hall is hot and smells strange. What do you do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: e-bike battery, you · What happens: be, smell, do
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Electric cars and charging» 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: An e-bike battery in the hall is hot and smells strange.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battery | det |
| 2 | e-bike | e-bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battery | compound |
| 3 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 battery | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | cop |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smells | cc |
| 10 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | conj |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smells | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a e-bike battery in the hall | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smell | present | a e-bike battery in the hall not said here | strange property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 do you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Wrap it up tight in a thick wool blanket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wrap | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Wrap | compound:prt |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 1 Wrap | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 blanket | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blanket | det |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blanket | amod |
| 8 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blanket | compound |
| 9 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wrap | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | imperative | you not said here | it | a thick wool blanket | tight property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in blanket=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep away and tell an adult at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 3
Charge it again to fix it, then check it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Charge | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Charge | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fix | mark |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Charge | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fix | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 check | advmod |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Charge | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 check | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | imperative | you not said here | it | again | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | fix | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | you not said here | it | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Put it in the bath to cool it down quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cool | mark |
| 7 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cool | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cool | compound:prt |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 cool | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | the bath | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bath=Destination | |||
| 2 | cool down | to-infinitive | you not said here | bath | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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