Test 1 · ★ · Power stations and the grid

«that cooling tower is pumping out tons of smoke, gross» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cooling tower, best correction · What happens: pump out, be · To what, where: tons

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 32 «Power stations and the grid» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 pumping	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tower	det
3	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tower	compound
4	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pumping	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pumping	aux
6	pumping	pump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 pumping	compound:prt
8	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pumping	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 smoke	case
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tons	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
12	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smoke	amod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 pumping	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 correction	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 correction	amod
18	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pumping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pump out in a quote	present · progressive	that cooling tower	tons of smoke					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ton=Theme
2	is a	present	the best correction						tree rules

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

It is a cloud made by the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cloud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cloud	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cloud	det
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cloud	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a cloud					tree rules
2	make	participle		a cloud not said here				by the Moon	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

It is steam mixed with bits of uranium from the reactor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mixed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	aux:pass
3	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl:unmarked
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mixed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 uranium	case
8	uranium	uranium	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bits	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 reactor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reactor	det
11	reactor	reactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present · passive		It		the reactor		with bits of uranium; steam obl:unmarked	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with bit=Co-Patient

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

The white cloud is water vapour, not smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vapour	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vapour	cop
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vapour	compound
6	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smoke	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 smoke	advmod
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vapour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the white cloud	water vapour and smoke					tree rules

Option 4

You are right, it is coal smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 smoke	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smoke	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smoke	cop
7	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smoke	compound
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	coal smoke					tree rules

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