Test 12 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

Kai: "Can kids make a difference, or is that just a vibe?" What's the wise answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, wise answer · What happens: make, be · To what, where: difference, vibe

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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

Sentence 1: Kai: "Can kids make a difference, or is that just a vibe?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
4	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 difference	det
8	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vibe	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 vibe	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vibe	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 vibe	mark
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 vibe	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vibe	det
15	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 vibe	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 vibe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	can	Kai	a difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Product
2	is a in a quote	present		a vibe					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's the wise answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, kids can never change anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 change	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	can	kids	anything					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Option 2

Yes, and kids must fix the climate all alone, without any help from adults

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fix	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fix	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fix	cc
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fix	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fix	aux
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 climate	det
8	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 alone	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 fix	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 help	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 help	det
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 adults	case
16	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	must	kids	the climate				without any help from adults; alone property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, in small ways, but big problems need many people and governments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 ways	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ways	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ways	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 problems	amod
9	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ways	parataxis
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 governments	cc
14	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	big problems	many people and governments					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme

Option 4

Only by buying more things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 buying	advmod
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 buying	mark
3	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		more things					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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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