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title: What would most likely happen if someone kept using a lamp with a ba… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if someone kept using a lamp with a badly frayed cord? Test 4 · ★ 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 4 · ★ · Electricity at home

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What would most likely happen if someone kept using a lamp with a badly frayed cord?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** happen, keep, use, fray · **To what, where:** lamp

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t4:1
# text = What would most likely happen if someone kept using a lamp with a badly frayed cord?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	frayed	fray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | someone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | someone *not said here* | a lamp |  |  |  | with a frayed cord | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient |
| 4 | **fray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Nothing, because lamps use little electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because lamps use little electricity
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	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 | **use** | present | lamps | little electricity |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cord would slowly heal by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t4:o2:1
# text = The cord would slowly heal by itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | would | the cord |  |  |  |  | by cord; slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lamp would simply give brighter light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t4:o3:1
# text = The lamp would simply give brighter light
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | the lamp | brighter light |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They could get a shock or start a fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t4:o4:1
# text = They could get a shock or start a fire
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | They | a shock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | They *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |

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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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