Test 8 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

Why do sun and wind count as clean energy and coal does not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sun · What happens: count, not do

This is test 8 · ★ 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	6 count	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sun	aux
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 count	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wind	cc
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	conj
6	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 does	advcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 energy	case
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 energy	amod
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 count	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 coal	cc
11	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 energy	conj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 does	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	sun and wind					as clean energy and coal	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as energy=Attribute
2	not do	present							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sun and wind do not burn fuel or release carbon dioxide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 burn	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wind	cc
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sun	conj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 burn	advmod
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dioxide	cc
9	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dioxide	compound
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dioxide	compound
11	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fuel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	present · do-support	Sun and wind	fuel or release carbon dioxide					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme

Option 2

Coal is cleaner but more expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaner	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaner	cop
3	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 expensive	cc
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 expensive	advmod
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cleaner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Coal					clean property	tree rules
2	be		Coal not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sun and wind are made from coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wind	cc
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sun	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 coal	case
7	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Sun and wind		coal			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from coal=Material

Option 4

Sun and wind are fossil fuels too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fuels	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wind	cc
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sun	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fuels	cop
5	fossil	fossil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fuels	amod
6	fuels	fuel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 fuels	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sun and wind	fossil fuels					tree rules

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