Test 6 · Electricity at home and staying safe

Why is a frayed cable dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: frayed cable · What happens: fray, be

This is test 6 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 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cable	det
4	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cable	amod
5	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dangerous	nsubj
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fray	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	a frayed cable					dangerous 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 · ✓ the right answer

Bare wires can give a shock or start a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wires	amod
2	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shock	det
6	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 start	cc
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	Bare wires	a shock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme
2	start	infinitive	Bare wires not said here	a fire					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 2

It makes the plug keep falling out of the socket

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 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 plug	det
4	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 makes	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 socket	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 socket	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 socket	det
10	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	It	the plug		tree rules
2	keep	present	the plug not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund			the socket	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out socket=Location

Option 3

It uses up far too much electricity every hour

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 uses	compound:prt
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 much	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 electricity	amod
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present	It	much electricity			hour		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient

Option 4

It makes the device too slow to warm up properly

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 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 device	det
4	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 device	amod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warm	mark
8	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slow	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 warm	compound:prt
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the device				properly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material device=Product
2	warm up	to-infinitive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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