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title: Why do electricians often wear rubber gloves? — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do electricians often wear rubber gloves? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Electricity at home

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Why do electricians often wear rubber gloves?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** electricians · **What happens:** do, wear · **To what, where:** rubber gloves

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t8:1
# text = Why do electricians often wear rubber gloves?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	electricians	electrician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | electricians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** | present | electricians | rubber gloves |  |  |  | often *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=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 {#o1}

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Rubber helps them hold the wires tighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t8:o1:1
# text = Rubber helps them hold the wires tighter
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	tighter	tight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Rubber | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | the wires |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Rubber does not let electricity pass easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t8:o2:1
# text = Rubber does not let electricity pass easily
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | present · do-support | Rubber | electricity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rubber makes their hands warmer in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t8:o3:1
# text = Rubber makes their hands warmer in winter
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Rubber | their hands |  |  | winter | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rubber pulls electricity out of the wires

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:32-electricity-at-home:t8:o4:1
# text = Rubber pulls electricity out of the wires
1	Rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | Rubber | electricity |  | the wires |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme out wire=Initial\_Location |

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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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