Test 8 · Electricity at home and staying safe
Grandma has one socket and wants to plug in a heater, a kettle and a toaster at once with adapters. What is the danger?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandma, danger · What happens: have, want, plug, be · To what, where: one socket, heater
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Grandma has one socket and wants to plug in a heater, a kettle and a toaster at once with adapters.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 socket | nummod |
| 4 | socket | socket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wants | cc |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 plug | mark |
| 8 | plug | plug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wants | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heater | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heater | det |
| 11 | heater | heater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plug | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kettle | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kettle | det |
| 14 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heater | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 toaster | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 toaster | det |
| 17 | toaster | toaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heater | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 plug | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 adapters | case |
| 21 | adapters | adapter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plug | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Grandma | one socket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent socket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Grandma not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plug not said to happen | to-infinitive | Grandma not said here | a heater and a kettle and a toaster | with adapters | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with adapter=Theme |
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 is the danger?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the danger | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The kettle will boil more slowly
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 | 4 boil | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 boil | aux |
| 4 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 slowly | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 boil | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | future | the kettle | slowly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing, sockets can take any amount
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 sockets | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | sockets | socket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 amount | det |
| 7 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Nothing sockets | any amount | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |
Option 3
The toaster will make the heater turn cold instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toaster | det |
| 2 | toaster | toaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heater | det |
| 6 | heater | heater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turn | xcomp |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | the toaster | the heater | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | the heater not said here | cold, instead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The wires could overheat and start a fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wires | det |
| 2 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overheat | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 overheat | aux |
| 4 | overheat | overheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 start | cc |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 overheat | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overheat | could | the wires | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | start | infinitive | the wires not said here | a fire | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |
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