Test 6 · ★★ · Electricity — circuits, switches and safety

What would happen to the lights in a circuit if a wire broke in the middle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wire · What happens: happen, break · To what, where: circuit, middle

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 circuit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 circuit	det
9	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 broke	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wire	det
12	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	nsubj
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a circuit		to the lights	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in circuit=Location
2	break a condition, not said to happen	past	a wire			the middle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

They would go out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	They					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They would change colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	They	colour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3

They would keep shining as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 before	advmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	They					before property	tree rules
2	shine	gerund	They not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would get brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They					bright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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