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Test 4 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

Ethan's grandad in Brisbane grumbles: «bloody solar's useless after dark, mate. Who keeps the lights on then? Coal.» What is the fair reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, fair reply · What happens: grumble, keep, be · To what, where: lights

This is test 4 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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: Ethan's grandad in Brisbane grumbles: «bloody solar's useless after dark, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethan	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumbles	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Brisbane	case
5	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod
6	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 solar	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 solar	punct
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 solar	amod
10	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grumbles	ccomp
11	's	's	PART	_	10 solar	case
12	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 solar	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 mate	case
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mate	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 useless	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grumbles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	Ethan's grandad in Brisbane						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: Who keeps the lights on then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 then	case
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 keeps	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		the lights					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent light=Theme on then=Location

Sentence 3: Coal.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Coal	punct
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Coal	punct

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

Sentence 4: What is the fair reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fair reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Coal power gives off no warming gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 power	compound
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 gives	compound:prt
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 gas	det
6	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gas	compound
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	present	Coal power	no warming gas					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme

Option 2

Solar panels work just as well at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 panels	amod
2	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 as	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	3 work	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Solar panels				night		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At night solar needs batteries or other power, and people argue how fast to switch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obl
3	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 power	cc
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 batteries	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 argue	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 argue	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 argue	nsubj
12	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 argue	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 switch	mark
16	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		batteries or other power			night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	present	people					fast property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	switch	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Batteries can never store electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 store	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 store	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 store	advmod
4	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not store	can	Batteries	electricity					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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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