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title: Which statement is true? — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Which statement is true? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 32 «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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Electricity at home

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which statement is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** statement · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 32 «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/32-electricity-at-home/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t2:1
# text = Which statement is true?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which statement |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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The human body never carries electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t2:o1:1
# text = The human body never carries electricity
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | present | the human body | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rubber carries electricity better than copper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t2:o2:1
# text = Rubber carries electricity better than copper
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Rubber | electricity |  |  |  | good *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Water from a tap can carry electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t2:o3:1
# text = Water from a tap can carry electricity
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | Water from a tap | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only metal can carry electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t2:o4:1
# text = Only metal can carry electricity
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | metal | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

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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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