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title: What would happen if a house had no fuses or trip switches at all? — Batteries, circuits and how electricit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a house had no fuses or trip switches at all? Test 4 of lesson 27 «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» of the physics 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 4 · Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows

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What would happen if a house had no fuses or trip switches at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** house · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** fuses, all

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This is test 4 of lesson 27 «Batteries, circuits and how electricity flows» of the physics 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/physics/27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a house had no fuses or trip switches at all?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	fuses	fuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	switches	switch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a house | no fuses or trip switches |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuse=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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Overloaded wires could overheat and start a fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows:t4:o1:1
# text = Overloaded wires could overheat and start a fire
1	Overloaded	overload	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overload** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overheat** | could | Overloaded wires |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | infinitive | Overloaded wires *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The house would not be able to get any electricity at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows:t4:o2:1
# text = The house would not be able to get any electricity at all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | would | the house |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the house *not said here* | any electricity |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme at all=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, fuses are only there as decoration anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing, fuses are only there as decoration anyway
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fuses	fuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing fuses |  |  |  |  | as decoration; anyway, there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The lights would get brighter and brighter every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:27-batteries-circuits-and-how-electricity-flows:t4:o4:1
# text = The lights would get brighter and brighter every day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the lights |  |  |  | day | bright *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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