Test 10 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy
The Sun has shone for billions of years. Will it go out tomorrow?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: shine, go out · To what, where: Sun
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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: The Sun has shone for billions of years.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | aux |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 billions | case |
| 6 | billions | billion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shone | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 billions | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present · perfect · passive | the Sun | for billions of years | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: Will it go out tomorrow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | future | Sun | tomorrow | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Yes, it is nearly out of coal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 coal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 coal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 coal | cop |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 coal | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 coal | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 coal | case |
| 8 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | coal | nearly property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, it goes out every hundred years and lights up again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 goes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 goes | compound:prt |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 years | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lights | cc |
| 10 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lights | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 lights | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | it | year | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | light up | present | again | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nobody has any idea at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 idea | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nobody | any idea | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it has fuel for about another five billion years
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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 billion | advmod |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 billion | det |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 billion | compound |
| 10 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | it | fuel | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient |
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