Test 4 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost
"electric cars r totally clean, no mining at all" — Max. What would you add?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: electric cars, you · What happens: be, add
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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
Sentence 1: "electric cars r totally clean, no mining at all" — Max.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 clean | punct |
| 2 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cars | amod |
| 3 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clean | nsubj |
| 4 | r | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 6 clean | cop |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 clean | advmod |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mining | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 mining | det |
| 9 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clean | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 mining | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 clean | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Max | punct |
| 14 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clean | vocative |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | electric cars | Max vocative; clean, totally 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.
Sentence 2: What would you add?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 add | obl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 add | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 add | nsubj |
| 4 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | would | you | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, no metals are needed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 metals | det |
| 4 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 needed | aux:pass |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | Nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Electric cars are made of wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Electric cars | of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They need mined metals like lithium and cobalt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mined | mine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 metals | amod |
| 4 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 lithium | case |
| 6 | lithium | lithium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 metals | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cobalt | cc |
| 8 | cobalt | cobalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lithium | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | They | mined metals | like lithium and cobalt | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot metal=Theme | |||
| 2 | mine | participle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Electric cars run on coal only, burnt in the boot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cars | amod |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | nsubj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 coal | case |
| 5 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burnt | punct |
| 8 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 run | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 boot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boot | det |
| 11 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Electric cars | coal | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coal=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | burnt | participle | the boot | tree rules |
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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