Test 3 · ★ · Power stations and the grid

What would happen if a country built power stations but no pylons or wires?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, build · To what, where: country

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stations	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stations	compound
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 country	acl
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stations	compound
9	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 pylons	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 pylons	det
12	pylons	pylon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stations	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wires	cc
14	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stations	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	participle		a country not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Electricity would fly to homes through the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 homes	case
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	Electricity			the air		to homes	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The electricity could not reach homes far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 electricity	det
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 reach	advmod
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reach	obj
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	could	the electricity	homes				away property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 3

Homes would get more electricity than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 electricity	amod
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Homes	more electricity				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer electricity=Stimulus

Option 4

Nothing, every home makes its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 makes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 home	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 home	det
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing	home's own					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material own=Product

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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