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description: What would happen if a frayed wire let electricity leak through someone touching it, in a house with an RCD? Test 6 · ★ 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
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# Test 6 · ★ · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

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What would happen if a frayed wire let electricity leak through someone touching it, in a house with an RCD?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** frayed wire, electricity · **What happens:** happen, fray, let, leak, touch · **To what, where:** electricity, someone, house

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a frayed wire let electricity leak through someone touching it, in a house with an RCD?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	frayed	fray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	leak	leak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
13	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	RCD	rcd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	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 | **fray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a frayed wire | electricity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leak** | infinitive | electricity *not said here* |  |  | someone |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through someone=Location |
| 5 | **touch** | gerund |  | electricity |  | a house with a RCD |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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 {#o1}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t6:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The RCD would switch the power off in a split second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t6:o2:1
# text = The RCD would switch the power off in a split second
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	RCD	rcd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	split	split	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | would | the RCD | the power |  |  | second |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The meter would stop counting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t6:o3:1
# text = The meter would stop counting
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meter	meter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the meter |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | the meter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The RCD would make the current stronger to push it through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:14-electricity-at-home:t6:o4:1
# text = The RCD would make the current stronger to push it through
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	RCD	rcd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | the RCD | the current |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset current=Product |
| 2 | **push** | to-infinitive | the RCD *not said here* | current |  |  |  | through *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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