Test 6 · ★★ · Phones and computer chips

«gloves on, can't swipe, phone's broke» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gloves · What happens: not swipe, be · To what, where: broke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Phones and computer chips» 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	_	2 gloves	punct
2	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swipe	nsubj
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 gloves	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gloves	punct
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 swipe	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 swipe	advmod
7	swipe	swipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broke	punct
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 phone	case
11	broke	broke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swipe	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 broke	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swipe	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swipe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swipe in a quote	can	gloves	phone's broke					tree rules
2	is	present						right 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 phone breaks in cold weather and needs fixing

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 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 weather	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needs	cc
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breaks	conj
9	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the phone			cold weather			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location
2	need	present	the phone not said here	fixing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fixing=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The screen needs the electricity of skin, which most gloves block

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 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 electricity	det
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 skin	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 electricity	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 block	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 block	obj
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 gloves	amod
11	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 block	nsubj
12	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 electricity	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	present	the screen	the electricity of skin	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot electricity=Theme
2	block	present	most gloves	the electricity of skin	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer which=Theme
3	electrify			skin	nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Touch screens only work in the summer months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 screens	compound
2	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 months	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 months	compound
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Touch screens				month		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Gloves are too slippery for the glass to feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slippery	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slippery	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slippery	advmod
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slippery	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feel	mark
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slippery	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gloves					for the glass; slippery property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	Gloves not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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