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Test 9 · ★★ · Electricity — circuits, switches and safety

Two batteries are placed in a row in a torch instead of one. What happens to the bulb?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: place, happen · To what, where: Two batteries, row

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Two batteries are placed in a row in a torch instead of one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 batteries	nummod
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 torch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 torch	det
10	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 one	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 placed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	present · passive		Two batteries		a row		in a torch; instead one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in row=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What happens to the bulb?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bulb	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bulb	det
5	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the bulb	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It turns into a switch

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	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 switch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 switch	det
5	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a switch			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into switch=Trajectory

Option 2

It glows more dimly

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	2 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dimly	advmod
4	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	2 glows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It					dimly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It stops working

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	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It glows brighter

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	2 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 glows	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It					bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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