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title: Ali reckons electricity in your body is a myth. Is he right? — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali reckons electricity in your body is a myth. Is he right? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 28 «Electricity and safety» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Electricity and safety

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Ali reckons electricity in your body is a myth. Is he right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ali, body · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** electricity, myth

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 28 «Electricity and safety» 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/28-electricity-and-safety/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ali reckons electricity in your body is a myth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:1
# text = Ali reckons electricity in your body is a myth.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Ali | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent electricity=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | your body |  |  | a myth |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is he right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:2
# text = Is he right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, nerves and the heart use tiny electric signals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:o1:1
# text = No, nerves and the heart use tiny electric signals
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | nerves and the heart | tiny electric signals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, the human body runs only on chemicals and food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, the human body runs only on chemicals and food
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the human body | chemicals and food |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chemical=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, our bodies are charged up like batteries all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:o3:1
# text = No, our bodies are charged up like batteries all day
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge up** | present · passive |  | our bodies |  |  | day | like batteries | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, only robots and machines can ever use electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:28-electricity-and-safety:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, only robots and machines can ever use electricity
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | can | robots and machines | electricity |  |  | ever |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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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