Test 9 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

At the barbecue in Alberta the cousin snaps: «oil's killing the planet, end of.» What is the fairest reply?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, oil, fairest reply · What happens: snap, kill, be · To what, where: barbecue, planet

This is test 9 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: At the barbecue in Alberta the cousin snaps: «oil's killing the planet, end of.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 barbecue	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barbecue	det
3	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snaps	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Alberta	case
5	Alberta	Alberta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 barbecue	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cousin	det
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snaps	nsubj
8	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 killing	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 killing	punct
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killing	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 killing	aux
13	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 snaps	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 planet	det
15	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 end	case
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snaps	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 snaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	the cousin			the barbecue in Alberta			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at barbecue=Location
2	kill in a quote	present · progressive	oil	the planet			of end		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent planet=Theme of end=Initial_Location

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: What is the fairest 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	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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 fairest reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Oil is made fresh every day, so it never runs out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 runs	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 runs	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 runs	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 runs	advmod
11	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Oil			day	fresh property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	not run out	present	Oil						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Oil has nothing at all to do with warming, so the cousin is simply wrong and should stop

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 warming	case
9	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrong	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 wrong	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cousin	det
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrong	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
15	simply	simply	ADV	_	16 wrong	advmod
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stop	cc
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	aux
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Oil	nothing	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Oil not said here	nothing not said here		with warming	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the cousin			simply, wrong property	tree rules
4	stop	should	Oil not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Oil workers want the planet to warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 workers	compound
2	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planet	det
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warm	mark
7	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Oil workers	the planet					tree rules
2	warm not said to happen	to-infinitive	the planet not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Oil warms the planet, and it also gives families jobs, so people argue about the change

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 planet	det
4	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gives	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gives	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gives	nsubj
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 gives	advmod
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	advcl
10	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jobs	compound
11	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gives	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 argue	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 argue	advmod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 argue	nsubj
15	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 change	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 change	det
18	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm	present	Oil	the planet		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient
2	give	present	Oil	families jobs		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	present	people		about the change	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about change=Topic

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