Test 11 · ★★ · Electricity — circuits, switches and safety

why are wires plastic on the outside

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wires · What happens: be · To what, where: outside

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 55 «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 plastic	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plastic	cop
3	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plastic	nsubj
4	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 outside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 outside	det
7	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plastic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	wires			the outside		plastic 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 · ← Mova's choice

Plastic makes the electricity faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 electricity	det
4	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Plastic	the electricity					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

Option 2

It is only for the colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 colours	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colours	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 colours	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 colours	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colours	det
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for the colours	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plastic is an insulator that keeps the electricity in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insulator	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insulator	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 insulator	det
4	insulator	insulator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insulator	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 electricity	det
8	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	6 keeps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Plastic	a insulator					tree rules
2	keep in	present	a insulator	the electricity					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 4

Metal would melt the plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plastic	det
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	Metal	the plastic					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient plastic=Result

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