Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★

★★★ «my e-scooter battery's gone a bit puffy and warm, no biggie lol» What does it really mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: e-scooter battery, battery · What happens: go, mean · To what, where: ★, biggie

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 battery	nmod:poss
6	e-scooter	e-scooter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 battery	amod
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 ★	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 puffy	obl:unmarked
12	puffy	puffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 warm	cc
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 puffy	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 biggie	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 biggie	det
17	biggie	biggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
18	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 biggie	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 biggie	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 mean	obj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mean	aux
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mean	nsubj
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 mean	advmod
24	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 biggie	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · passive	my e-scooter battery	★ not said here				puffy property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ★=Theme
2	mean	present · do-support	battery	no biggie					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 right answer

A real danger: tell an adult and never press or pierce it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 danger	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 danger	amod
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 danger	parataxis
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 press	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 press	advmod
10	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 pierce	cc
12	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 press	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 press	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	not press	infinitive	adult		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	pierce	infinitive			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, puffy batteries just hold extra charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 batteries	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	puffy	puffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 batteries	amod
4	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 hold	advmod
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 charge	amod
8	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Nothing puffy batteries	extra charge					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme

Option 3

Press it flat again so it fits back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Press	obj
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 Press	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Press	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 fits	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fits	nsubj
7	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Press	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 fits	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	7 fits	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	imperative	you not said here	it			again	flat property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fit back	present	it						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pop it in the freezer for an hour to cool it right down so it is safe

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pop	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 freezer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 freezer	det
5	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pop	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pop	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cool	mark
10	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pop	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cool	obj
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 cool	advmod
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 safe	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 safe	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 safe	cop
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	imperative	you not said here	it	the freezer	hour		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	cool	to-infinitive	you not said here	freezer			down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	present	freezer				safe property	tree rules

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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