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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a bird perched upon a power line. Exam question 4 of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 4 · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a bird perched upon a power line.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, perch · **To what, where:** response, bird, power line

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/16-electricity-dangers/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a bird perched upon a power line.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | a bird |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer |
| 4 | **perch** | participle |  | a bird *not said here* |  | a power line |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon line=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Birds are too small to conduct electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:e4:o1:1
# text = Birds are too small to conduct electricity
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Birds |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **conduct** | to-infinitive | Birds *not said here* | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It touches a single conductor and not the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:e4:o2:1
# text = It touches a single conductor and not the ground
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	conductor	conductor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | It | a single conductor and the ground |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme conductor=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Power lines are de-energised for the passage of birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:e4:o3:1
# text = Power lines are de-energised for the passage of birds
1	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	energised	energise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **energise** | present · passive |  | Power lines |  |  |  | for the passage of birds | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** |  | birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Feathers render all birds immune to electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:e4:o4:1
# text = Feathers render all birds immune to electricity
1	Feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	render	render	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	immune	immune	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | present | Feathers | all birds | electricity |  |  | immune *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to electricity=Recipient |

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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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