Test 11 · Inside the Earth

Why is the Earth still hot inside after billions of years?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: be

This is test 11 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» 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	6 hot	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 billions	case
9	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hot	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 billions	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Earth				after billions of years; still	hot, inside 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

Volcanoes pump heat back down into it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pump	nsubj
2	pump	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pump	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 pump	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pump	present	Volcanoes	heat		heat		down property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heat=Theme into it=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Radioactive elements keep making heat, and a planet that big cools very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elements	amod
2	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cools	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cools	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 planet	det
9	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cools	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 big	nsubj
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 planet	amod
12	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 slowly	advmod
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Radioactive elements			tree rules
2	make	gerund	Radioactive elements not said here	heat		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product
3	cool	present	a planet		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The Sun heats it from the inside every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heats	nsubj
3	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heats	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 inside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inside	det
7	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	present	the Sun	it		the inside	day		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Burning oil underground keeps it warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 oil	amod
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
3	underground	underground	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	obj
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	Burning oil	it				underground, warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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