Test 3 · Energy: what makes things happen

If the Sun went out, what would happen to wind power on Earth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: go out, happen · To what, where: wind power

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	advcl
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 power	mark
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 power	compound
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 power	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	would		wind power on Earth					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would be the only kind of power left that still works

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	6 kind	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 works	mark
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 works	advmod
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	would	It	the only kind		tree rules
2	leave	past	power			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work	present	power not said here		still	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would fail, because the Sun drives the wind

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	3 fail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	aux
3	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drives	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 drives	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drives	nsubj
8	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	would	It						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drive	present	the Sun	the wind					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would get stronger without sunshine

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	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 sunshine	case
6	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					without sunshine; strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, the wind does not need the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 need	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 need	advmod
7	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing	the Sun					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sun=Theme

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