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title: my little bro says it's fine to touch a plug with wet hands. true? — Electricity — circuits, switches and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: my little bro says it's fine to touch a plug with wet hands. true? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 55 «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Electricity — circuits, switches and safety

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my little bro says it's fine to touch a plug with wet hands. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** little bro · **What happens:** say, be, touch · **To what, where:** plug · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 55 «Electricity — circuits, switches and safety» of the world 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/world/55-electricity/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t12:1
# text = my little bro says it's fine to touch a plug with wet hands. true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my little bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | to-infinitive |  | a plug |  |  |  | with wet hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plug=Theme with hand=Instrument |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, water can conduct electricity and it is dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t12:o1:1
# text = No, water can conduct electricity and it is dangerous
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | can | water | electricity |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, wet hands are insulators

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, wet hands are insulators
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	insulators	insulator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | wet hands | insulators |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, water blocks electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, water blocks electricity
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, but only in the bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t12:o4:1
# text = No, but only in the bath
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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