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title: Which sign shows an electrical fault you should report at once? — Laundry machines, the freezer and elec… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sign shows an electrical fault you should report at once? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home

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Which sign shows an electrical fault you should report at once?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sign, you · **What happens:** show, report · **To what, where:** electrical fault

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t9:1
# text = Which sign shows an electrical fault you should report at once?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	electrical	electrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | which sign | a electrical fault |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fault=Recipient |
| 2 | **report** | should | you | a electrical fault *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient |

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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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A plug that is hot and smells of burning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t9:o1:1
# text = A plug that is hot and smells of burning
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smell** | present | a plug |  |  |  |  | of burning | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of burning=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A cable that is coiled neatly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t9:o2:1
# text = A cable that is coiled neatly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	coiled	coil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coil** | present · passive |  | a cable |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A socket on the wall with nothing plugged into it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t9:o3:1
# text = A socket on the wall with nothing plugged into it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nmod	_	_
8	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plug** | participle |  |  |  | wall |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A lamp that is switched off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity:t9:o4:1
# text = A lamp that is switched off
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | present · passive |  | a lamp |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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