Test 11 · Electricity at home and staying safe

why'd all the power go off when we plugged in the heater and kettle

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: power, we · What happens: go off, plug · To what, where: heater

This is test 11 of lesson 87 «Electricity at home and staying safe» 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	6 go	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 power	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 power	det
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 plugged	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 plugged	nsubj
10	plugged	plug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 heater	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heater	det
13	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plugged	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kettle	cc
15	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heater	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	infinitive	all power						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	plug	past	we			the heater and kettle			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 power station turned off our house on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 station	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 station	compound
3	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	past	the power station	our house		purpose			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 2

The kettle and heater cancel each other out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancel	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 heater	cc
4	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kettle	conj
5	cancel	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 cancel	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 cancel	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel out	present	the kettle and heater	each					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A fuse or circuit breaker cut off the power because too much flowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fuse	det
2	fuse	fuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 breaker	cc
4	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaker	compound
5	breaker	breaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fuse	conj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fuse	acl
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 power	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 power	det
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 flowed	mark
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 flowed	advmod
13	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cut	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	participle	a fuse or circuit breaker not said here	the power					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector power=Eventuality
2	flow	participle	a fuse or circuit breaker not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The heater sucked all the power out of the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heater	det
2	heater	heater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucked	nsubj
3	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 power	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucked	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	past	the heater	all power		the house			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent power=Theme out house=Source

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