Test 10 · The Industrial Revolution

Why did the Industrial Revolution start the problem of climate change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Industrial Revolution · What happens: start · To what, where: problem

This is test 10 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history 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 start	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
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	6 start	nsubj
6	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 problem	det
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 change	case
10	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	compound
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · do-support	the Industrial Revolution	the problem of climate change					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Eventuality

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

It has nothing to do with it; the weather was just the same back then

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weather	det
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 same	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	nothing	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive		nothing not said here		with it	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the weather			same property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Burning coal began to add lots of smoke and gases to the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 coal	amod
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 add	mark
5	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 add	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smoke	case
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gases	cc
10	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lots	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Burning coal			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	Burning coal not said here	lots of smoke and gases	to the air	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient to air=Co-Patient

Option 3

It cooled the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooled	nsubj
2	cooled	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cooled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	past	It	the Sun					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sun=Patient

Option 4

Trains melted the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	Trains	the ice					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result

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