Test 9 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade
Why are lithium mines so important today?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lithium mines
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» of the geography 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 mines | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mines | cop |
| 3 | lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mines | compound |
| 4 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 important | advmod |
| 6 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mines | amod |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 important | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mines | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lithium mines | 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
Lithium is the main fuel of ships
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fuel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fuel | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fuel | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fuel | amod |
| 5 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ships | case |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fuel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lithium | the main fuel | of ships | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Batteries for phones and electric cars need lithium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 phones | case |
| 3 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Batteries | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cars | cc |
| 5 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cars | amod |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 phones | conj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Batteries for phones and electric cars | lithium | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lithium=Theme |
Option 3
Lithium is used to make bread rise in factory bakeries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rise | compound |
| 7 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bakeries | case |
| 9 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bakeries | compound |
| 10 | bakeries | bakery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rise | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | Lithium | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rise | infinitive | factory bakeries | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bakery=Location |
Option 4
Lithium mines produce clean water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mines | compound |
| 2 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 produce | nsubj |
| 3 | produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produce | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | present | Lithium mines | clean water | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Result |
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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