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title: Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Technology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

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The 15 questions of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 81 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/14-electricity-at-home/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t1/) — smoke alarm keeps chirping and it's driving me mad, just yank the battery out? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t2/) — In a film a boy pokes a fork into a socket and his hair stands up, and he is fine. What's true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t3/) — why does the alarm go off when toast burns lol it's not a fire? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t4/) — My cousin says the fuse in a plug is there to make the plug heavier. Right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t5/) — Which uses more electricity: a kettle, or all the LED lights in a room? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t6/) — What would happen if a frayed wire let electricity leak through someone touching it, in a house with an RCD? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t7/) — The carbon monoxide alarm is beeping. What do you do? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t8/) — ugh my hands are wet, can I just flick the light on? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t9/) — Leo yanks the plug out by its cable. What is the rule? — right ✓ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t10/) — Why does a doorbell camera ring the phone even before the button is pressed? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t11/) — Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. What counts them? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/e1/) — Identify the function of the fuse contained within a United Kingdom mains plug. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/e2/) — It is given that a residual current device detects a leakage of current through a person. State the response of the device. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises carbon monoxide? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the intermittent chirp of a smoke alarm. — right ✓ · exam

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