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Test 2 · Energy: what makes things happen

Liam says his porridge is basically old sunshine. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liam, porridge · What happens: say, be · To what, where: old sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 31 «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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: Liam says his porridge is basically old sunshine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 porridge	nmod:poss
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sunshine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sunshine	cop
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 sunshine	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sunshine	amod
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Liam						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Liam's porridge	old sunshine				basically 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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Liam					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, food has no energy at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 energy	det
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 energy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	food	no energy		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 2

No, porridge energy comes from the cooker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 energy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 energy	compound
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 cooker	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cooker	det
8	cooker	cooker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	porridge energy			the cooker			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cooker=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, but only if he eats it outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 eats	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 eats	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 eats	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eats	obj
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	he	it				outside property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the oats grew by catching sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oats	det
4	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 catching	mark
7	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grew	advcl
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the oats						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	gerund	the oats not said here	sunlight					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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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