Test 3 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…
Ella's Gen X dad: "Solar panels? Total bummer, way too pricey." ("Bummer" means a letdown.) What changed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bummer · What happens: mean, change · To what, where: letdown
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Ella's Gen X dad: "Solar panels?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 X | compound |
| 4 | X | X | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | compound |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 panels | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 panels | punct |
| 8 | Solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 panels | amod |
| 9 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dad | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Total bummer, way too pricey."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bummer | amod |
| 2 | bummer | bummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bummer | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 pricey | advmod |
| 6 | pricey | pricey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bummer | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bummer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: ("Bummer" means a letdown.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bummer | punct |
| 3 | Bummer | bummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bummer | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 letdown | det |
| 7 | letdown | letdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bummer | a letdown | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letdown=Topic |
Sentence 4: What changed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Solar panels stopped working
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 panels | amod |
| 2 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Solar panels | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Solar panels not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They are only used on the Moon
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 | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | They | the Moon | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Solar panels cost about ten times more now than they did back in 2010
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 panels | amod |
| 2 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 ten | advmod |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 more | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cost | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cost | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cost | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2010 | case |
| 14 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | Solar panels | more | now | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | |||
| 2 | do back | past | panels = panel | 2010 | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Solar power got about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 power | amod |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 ten | advmod |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cheaper | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 got | xcomp |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 2010 | case |
| 9 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 2020 | cc |
| 11 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 2010 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get about | past | Solar power | between 2010; cheap property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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