Test 7 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

Why did Britain once have so many factories in towns near coal mines?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: Britain, many factories, towns

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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	5 have	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	advcl
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 factories	amod
8	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 towns	case
10	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 factories	nmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 mines	case
12	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mines	compound
13	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 towns	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Britain					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent britain=Eventuality
2	have	present		many factories		towns near coal mines		once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Patient

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

Coal made the towns warm even in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 towns	det
4	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 summer	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 summer	case
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Coal	the towns			summer	warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product

Option 2

Coal kept the rain off the factory roofs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 roofs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roofs	det
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roofs	compound
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Coal	the rain				off the factory roofs	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Coal powered the Industrial Revolution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	Coal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 powered	nsubj
2	powered	power	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Revolution	det
4	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Revolution	amod
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 powered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	power	past	Coal	the Industrial Revolution					tree rules

Option 4

Coal smelled nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	Coal					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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