Test 10 · ★ · Batteries

«why does the battery go from like 10 to dead so fast, rubbish phone» What is the real reason?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: battery · What happens: go, be · To what, where: rubbish phone, 10, real reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 34 «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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battery	det
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 reason	csubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 10	case
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 10	case
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 go	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dead	mark
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 phone	punct
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 phone	compound
16	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 reason	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reason	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reason	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reason	amod
22	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · do-support	the battery	rubbish phone		10		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from 10=Initial_Location
2	is a	present		the real reason					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 phone hides 10% for itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	nsubj
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 %	nummod
5	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	3 hides	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	the phone					for phone	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Batteries always run down much faster at the very end of the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 run	advmod
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 run	compound:prt
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 end	advmod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run down	present	Batteries				at the end of the day	always, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The percentage is only an estimate made by a chip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 percentage	det
2	percentage	percentage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 estimate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 estimate	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 estimate	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 estimate	det
6	estimate	estimate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 estimate	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 chip	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chip	det
10	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the percentage	a estimate					tree rules
2	make	participle		a estimate not said here				by a chip	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

The screen counts in tens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 screen	det
2	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counts	nsubj
3	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tens	case
5	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	the screen			tens			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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