Exam question 4 · Metals, mining and what they cost

Ascertain the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, respect · To what, where: principal advantage, energy

This is exam question 4 of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advantage	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 advantage	amod
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 recycling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 recycling	det
7	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advantage	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 metals	case
9	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 recycling	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 respect	case
11	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 metals	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 energy	case
13	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 respect	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the principal advantage of the recycling of metals in respect of energy					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Topic
2	respect			energy					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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

Considerably more energy is consumed than in mining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Considerably	considerably	ADV	_	5 consumed	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 energy	amod
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consumed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consumed	aux:pass
5	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 mining	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 mining	case
8	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present · passive		more energy				than mining; considerably property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Considerably less energy is consumed than in the mining of new ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Considerably	considerably	ADV	_	2 less	advmod
2	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 energy	amod
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consumed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consumed	aux:pass
5	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 mining	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mining	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mining	det
9	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consumed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ore	case
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ore	amod
12	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mining	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present · passive		less energy				than the mining of new ore	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	mine			new ore					nom mining «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Energy consumption is identical in both cases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consumption	compound
2	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identical	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identical	cop
4	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cases	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cases	det
7	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 identical	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Energy consumption			both cases		identical property	tree rules

Option 4

No energy whatsoever is consumed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 energy	det
2	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 consumed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consumed	aux:pass
5	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 energy	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present · passive		whatsoever					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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