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title: A kettle cable has a crack and the copper inside shows. What should… — Electricity — circuits, switches and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kettle cable has a crack and the copper inside shows. What should you do? Test 5 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Electricity — circuits, switches and safety

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A kettle cable has a crack and the copper inside shows. What should you do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kettle cable, copper, you · **What happens:** have, show, do · **To what, where:** crack

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kettle cable has a crack and the copper inside shows.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:1
# text = A kettle cable has a crack and the copper inside shows.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a kettle cable | a crack |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | the copper |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should you do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:2
# text = What should you do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wrap it in wet cloth and keep using it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:o1:1
# text = Wrap it in wet cloth and keep using it
1	Wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | wet cloth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | cloth |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Touch the copper to check it works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:o2:1
# text = Touch the copper to check it works
1	Touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the copper |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme copper=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | copper |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Use it only when your hands are wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:o3:1
# text = Use it only when your hands are wet
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | your hands |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Stop using it and get it replaced

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:55-electricity:t5:o4:1
# text = Stop using it and get it replaced
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **replace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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