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title: Why is charging a phone under the pillow risky? — Laundry machines, the freezer and elec… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is charging a phone under the pillow risky? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

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Why is charging a phone under the pillow risky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** charge · **To what, where:** phone, pillow

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 108 «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t5:1
# text = Why is charging a phone under the pillow risky?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present · progressive |  | a phone |  | the pillow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location phone=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The charger gets hot and the bedding can catch fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t5:o1:1
# text = The charger gets hot and the bedding can catch fire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the charger |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **catch** | can | the bedding | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The phone might ring in the night and wake you up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t5:o2:1
# text = The phone might ring in the night and wake you up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | might | the phone |  |  |  | night |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake up** | present | the phone *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The phone charges too slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t5:o3:1
# text = The phone charges too slowly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charges	charge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | the phone |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The pillow drains the battery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t5:o4:1
# text = The pillow drains the battery
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drains	drain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drain** | present | the pillow | the battery |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent battery=Source |

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**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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