--- title: Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. What counts them? — Electricity at home: switches, plugs,… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. What counts them? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was ri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/) / [Electricity at home: switches, plugs,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/14-electricity-at-home/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. What counts them? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** say, pay, count · **To what, where:** them · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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/technology/14-electricity-at-home/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:1 # text = Mum says she pays for electricity in kilowatt-hours. 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 kilowatt kilowatt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | present | Mum | | | | hour | for electricity | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for electricity=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What counts them? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:2 # text = What counts them? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 counts count 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The fuse box ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:o1:1 # text = The fuse box 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fuse fuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Wi-Fi router ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:o2:1 # text = The Wi-Fi router 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Wi Wi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Fi fi NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 router router NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The smoke alarm ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:o3:1 # text = The smoke alarm 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The electricity meter ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t11:o4:1 # text = The electricity meter 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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