Test 7 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

«one kid turning lights off won't save anything, waste of time» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one kid · What happens: turn off, not save, be · To what, where: lights, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 kid	punct
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kid	nummod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	nsubj
4	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kid	acl
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turning	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 turning	compound:prt
7	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 save	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 save	advmod
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 save	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waste	punct
12	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anything	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waste	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 save	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn off in a quote	gerund	one kid not said here	lights		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	not save in a quote	future	one kid	anything		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Turning lights off harms birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 harms	csubj
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Turning	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	4 harms	case
4	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		lights					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	harm	present	Turning	birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Small choices by many people add up to a big difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 choices	amod
2	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 add	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choices	nmod
6	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 add	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 difference	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 difference	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 difference	amod
11	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add up speech: assert	present	Small choices by many people					to a big difference	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to difference=Co-Patient

Option 3

Lights do not affect animals at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 affect	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 affect	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 affect	advmod
4	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 affect	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 affect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · do-support	Lights	animals		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, only scientists in laboratories can help nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 scientists	advmod
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 help	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 laboratories	case
6	laboratories	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scientists	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	scientists in laboratories	nature					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Beneficiary

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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