Test 11 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

Which loses more energy as wasted heat: a petrol car engine or an electric car's motor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: lose, waste · To what, where: more energy

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 energy	amod
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 heat	case
6	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 engine	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 engine	det
10	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 car	compound
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engine	compound
12	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 motor	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 car	det
15	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 car	amod
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 motor	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 car	case
18	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engine	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present		more energy				as wasted heat	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality
2	waste	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The petrol engine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 engine	det
2	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Neither loses any energy as heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 heat	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Neither	any energy				as heat	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality

Option 3

The electric motor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 motor	det
2	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 motor	amod
3	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Both lose exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Both	the same					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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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