Test 5 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy
A town wants energy that will never run out. Which should it choose?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: town, energy · What happens: want, not run out, choose · To what, where: energy
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: A town wants energy that will never run out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 run | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 run | advmod |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 energy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 run | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a town | energy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not run out | future | energy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: Which should it choose?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | should | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wind and solar power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 power | cc |
| 3 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 power | amod |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wind | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bigger oil tanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tanks | amod |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tanks | compound |
| 3 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Burning old car tyres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tyres | amod |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tyres | compound |
| 4 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Burning | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | old car tyres | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tyre=Theme |
Option 4
More coal power stations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 stations | amod |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stations | compound |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stations | compound |
| 4 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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