Test 7 · Electricity at home and staying safe

Which is true about helping someone who is getting an electric shock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, help, get · To what, where: someone, electric shock

This is test 7 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 helping	mark
5	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 helping	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 getting	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 someone	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shock	det
11	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shock	amod
12	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			true property	tree rules
2	help	gerund		someone		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary
3	get	present · progressive	a electric shock			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus

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

You must cut the power before touching them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 power	det
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 touching	mark
7	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cut	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	must	You	the power					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Product
2	touch	gerund	You not said here	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 2

You should pour water on them to cool them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pour	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pour	aux
3	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pour	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pour	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cool	mark
8	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pour	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	should	You	water				on them = they	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	cool	to-infinitive	You not said here	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

You should leave them alone until it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 stops	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stops	nsubj
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should	You	them = they				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	stop	present	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

You should grab them quickly with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grab	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grab	aux
3	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grab	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 grab	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hands	det
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	should	You	them = they				with both hands; quickly property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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